This paper analyses the spatial distribution of migrant knowledge workers in their place of work and place of residence to identify the different patterns between international and internal migrant knowledge workers.

Drawing on a City of Sydney database, and set against the wider institutional context, this paper identifies the major characteristics of urban planning developments and key aspects of the competitive process involved in terms of timelines, participants and outcomes.

The global Sydney thesis and the migration thesis, two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary globalisation, have been developing in parallel. In this article, we argue that the two theses are intrinsically linked. Sydney’s rise as a global city is closely associated with its growing migration. The central question is how we should approach...

The global Sydney thesis has been argued largely from an economic-centric perspective, focusing on Sydney’s integration with the world economy, and the effect of economic globalisation. This article employs a different perspective to approach global Sydney, and pays attention to its growing migration as a global city.

This study takes an urban functional angle to investigate the transformations of Central Sydney in the context of contemporary globalisation.