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Title: | Measurement and interpretation of connectivity of Chinese cities in world city network, 2010 |
Authors: | Derudder, Ben Taylor, Peter J. Hoyler, Michael Ni, Pengfei Liu, Xingjian Zhao, Miaoxi Shen, Wei Witlox, Frank |
Keywords: | World city network Advanced producer services Shanghai Hong Kong Beijing |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | © Science Press, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, CAS and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg |
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. |
Abstract: | This 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. |
Description: | The final publication is available at link.springer.com. |
Sponsor: | 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. |
Version: | Accepted for publication |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11769-013-0604-y |
URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12640 |
Publisher Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11769-013-0604-y |
ISSN: | 1002-0063 |
Appears in Collections: | Published Articles (Geography)
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