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Measurement and interpretation of connectivity of Chinese cities in world city network, 2010
journal contribution
posted on 2013-06-27, 13:27 authored by Ben Derudder, Peter J. Taylor, Michael HoylerMichael Hoyler, Pengfei Ni, Xingjian Liu, Miaoxi Zhao, Wei Shen, Frank WitloxThis is an empirical paper that measures and interprets the position of
Chinese cities in the world city network in 2010. Building on a specification of the
world city network as an ‘interlocking network’ in which business service firms play
the crucial role in network formation, information is gathered about the presence and
importance of global service firms in cities. This information is converted into data to
provide the ‘service value’ of a city for a firm’s provision of its corporate services in a
526 (cities) x 175 (firms) matrix. These data are then used as the input to the
interlocking network model in order to measure cities’ connectivity and its
predominant geographical orientation. Here we focus on the position of some key
Chinese cities in this regard, and discuss and interpret results in the context of the
urban dimensions of the ‘opening up’ of the Chinese economy.
Funding
Foundation item: Under the auspices of European Research Council under the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (No. PIOF-GA-2010-274027), Key Laboratory of Ecology and Energy-saving of Dense Habitat (Tongji University), Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Citation
DERUDDER, B. ... et al, 2013. Measurement and interpretation of connectivity of Chinese cities in world city network, 2010. Chinese Geographical Science, 23 (3), pp.261-273.Publisher
© Science Press, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS and Springer-Verlag Berlin HeidelbergVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2013Notes
The final publication is available at link.springer.com.ISSN
1002-0063eISSN
1993-064XPublisher version
Language
- en