World city networks and hierarchies, 1977-1997 - An empirical analysis of global air travel links

被引:209
作者
Smith, DA [1 ]
Timberlake, MF
机构
[1] Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92717 USA
[2] Kansas State Univ, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
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10.1177/00027640121958104
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
The world's great cities are important nodes in the world economy. Major theorists (Friedman, Sassen, Castells) conceptualize cities as the command and control centres for contemporary global capitalism. The author's research offers a view of the global system based on a careful examination of the relations between world cities and how those patterns change over time. Formal network analysis allows the author to interpret data on flows of airline passengers between the world's great cities for six time points between 1977 and 1997, focusing on the changes in network characteristics (especially centrality hierarchy and clique membership) for the entire global city system. Although New York, Paris, London, Tokyo, and a few other major European and North American metropolises dominate this urban hierarchy throughout the two decades, the network roles and positions of other places shift considerably. The article concludes that research on world city networks once again demonstrates that global urbanization patterns are characterized by the uneven development dynamic anticipated by world-system analysis.
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页码:1656 / 1678
页数:23
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