... a category of location
data listed in About Site Selection. CLICK
HERE for the file Location Information. The
various types of .network mission
contacts positioned to
provide information
about places
of interest to site
selectors and enterprise
developers are also listed in About Site
Selection. They are referred
to as location
data suppliers. The expression, area
and local development representatives, is used to identify
those who are
generally classified as economic
developers. Area information
as referred to here is data put together for prospects and
to promote places
seeking economic development.
CLICK
HERE to enter the series of pages About
Site Selection.
CLICK HERE to
access the United Nations Statistics Division directory page for its
methods and classfications which includes area information
(scroll up to comments and guidance about area information in The
Network). The directory has access to information such as (1)
reports from
UN experts on geographical names, (2) standard
country or area codes and geographical regions used for generating
statistics,
and (3) city
groups.
Note: Locations in
the Enterprise
and Economic Development Library suggests searches of
the Web for information about places
of interest as related to
the mission of The
Network. The library's
Map
Room has suggestions for keyword
combinations to use to search
for information by major global regions. An international
section has suggestions to help you gather information about global city-regions
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regional information:
... a category of location
data listed in About Site Selection. CLICK
HERE for the file Location Information. Regional
information as it relates to searching for location data suppliers
published in this website you are using. CLICK HERE for its main
directory and there select the link to the Regional Site Selection
Directory. It is a site selection resource.
city regions:
... The main focus of the Regional Site Selection
Directory is tp provide access to locaton data for members of the
.network target audience, especially those who are interested or
engaged in site selection. Locations throughout the world interested
in respondinging to opportunities that come through the site seleciton
process can list in the Regional Site Selection Directory for free.
Their location data suppliers sign up for the Global Registary of
Contacts as a first step. The GRC is maintained as a free service.
Registration is free also. You or any other user of The Network are
invited to request a location listing in the GRC and Regional Site
Selection Directory ... you incur not obligation by making a request.
We (who we are) attempt to organize regional information is Site
Location Assistance.com under the names of the places that are transportation
hubs as well as centers for area enterprise and economic development
(see the definition of area development). Resource files in the Regional
Site Selection Directory are organized using the names that facilitate
searching; therefore, they they may have more than one identity.
The focus is on giving files a city-region identity (see the definition
of city-region).
CLICK HERE to suggest the identity of a city to be used to name
a city-region file
CLICK HERE for the definition of global city-region along with city-region.
Note: The 1999 Global City Regions Conference prompted the development of the
Regional Site Selection Directory and the indentification of its resouce files
by the name of enterprise and economic development and transportation hubs. Following
is a list of websites of major conference participants listed
as
resouce
providers going forward.
IMF / International Monetary
Fund
Metropolis /
World Association of Major Metropolises
OECD /
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development
UNESCO /
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UN / The United Nations
The
World Bank.They are also called global cities or world cities.
Also see the city-region information in Site Location Assistance.com
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Places seeking economic development that qualify as regional enterprise
and economic development and transportation hubs as well as
others that are within a city region listed in the Regional Site
Selection Directory are referred to in ways other than
just being called a city. Following are links to definitions of various
generic city-related identies:.
define city
define community
define locale / location
define megalopolis
define mesolopolis
define metropolis
define metropolitan region / metro region / metro area / metroarea
define microlopolis
define micropolitan
define town
define urban / urban area
define village
global city-regions:
... major urban areas throughout the world recognized
as important centers in the global
economy. The Globalization and World Cities Study Group
and Network (GaWC)
has established selection
criteria according to information provided by Wikipedia (selection
criteria applicable to location
work is defined in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary.
Global cities are population, transportation and financial centers.
They are centers in their regions for enterprise and economic development.
Therefore, Consular offices and various governmental agencies are
located in them. Economic development contacts can be found in global
cities.
Information about global cities was originally posted in .network resource
archive in 1999 after exchanges with one of the organizers of the Global
City Regions Conference. A list
of cities was published in the archive also. There are suggestions
of keyword combinations to use to search the Web for more information in
the International
Trade and Development section of
the Enterprise
and Economic Development Library. Your help is now
needed to create files for nations and their global city regions in Area
Development/Economic
Development.net.
The following links to resources are from
the 1999 Global City Regions Conference website.
Send an email to request that a file for a nation
as a location be opened in The
Network and that a city-region or global
city-region along with links to websites for location
contacts and/or an economic
development profile be included. Creating and publishing files
is a free service.
 Use
the email address shown below
Begin
the email subject line with the word nation followed
by a colon (nation:)
Type
or copy and paste a name from the list of nations after nation: (list
of nations)
Type
the location
identity for the suggested city as a location in the memo
section.
There
is no need to identify yourself, unless you
choose to do so
By following instructions, you set a priority on your email so that
it receives attention separately from spam and other trash inquiries
to which we pay little or no attention.
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Query the Web for city regions using
the search engine at the top of this page. Copy
and paste suggested text lines (italicized), keeping quotation marks
intact and substituting the identity of a city (location
identity) of interest to you for the word location.
Keywords are
organized to help you find economic
development resources as well as resource
and service providers who quality as mission
contacts.
In the event that you are not satisfied with your search using the
suggestions, CLICK
HERE.
 Search for ... location
economic development contact
Search for ... location site
selection information contact
Search for ... location
economic development region contact
Search for ... location
site selection region contact
Search for ... location
city regions list (location = name of country)
Search for ... global
city regions list
Search for ... location
global city economic development (location = name of city)
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A transportation
center for a region is typically an urban area ... a metropolis or micropolitan community.
The following definitions describe other places that serve city-regions as
their centers of economic
development as well as their hub of commerce.
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The Journal of Applied Ecology Published by: British Ecological
Society
Urban Ecology in China by Chen Changdu
Vol. 26, No. 3 (Dec., 1989), pp. 875-877
A mesolopolis is referred to in the article as a middle-sized city
A microlopolis is referred to in the article as a small city with the next
size down being a town.
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... area
developers in position as location
data suppliers. Only one
area development organization may be listed with a free link. Sponsor listings
takes precedence.
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Metropolitan area and micropolitan
area are expressions used to by the US Census Bureau in presenting demographic information.
By US Government definition a Metropolitan Statistical Area MSA)
may be either a microlopolis, mesolopolis, metropolis or megalopolis.
metropolitan ... see information
in Wikipedia. Also, see the .network definition
of a locale as urban area centered on a city and defined by demographic
statistics; Metropolitan Statistical Area: (defined by the US Government
as having
a population of 50,000 or more). If contiguous MSAs are combined into
a single urban area with a population in excess of one million, it is
referred to as a Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area or CMSA.
MSAs that combine into a CMSA are no longer referred to as such, but
may be referred to as Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas. For example,
Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC may be referred to as PMSAs individually,
although they are the Baltimore/Washington CMSA.
The Network doesn't use the MSA approach; instead, we seek to
define regions by the names of cities that impact their economic development.
We look for transportation centers rather than demographics
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