World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997
World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997
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DOI：
10.1177/00027640121958104
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发表时间：
2001-06
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
David A. Smith;M. Timberlake
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作者：
David A. Smith;M. Timberlake
世界大城市是世界经济的重要节点。主要理论家(弗里德曼、萨森、卡斯特尔斯)将全球城市概念化为当代全球资本主义的指挥和控制中心。作者的研究提供了一种全球体系的观点，基于对世界城市之间的关系和联系的仔细研究，以及这些模式如何随着时间的推移而变化。正式的网络分析使作者能够解释1977至1997年间世界各大城市之间六个时间点的航空客流数据，重点是整个全球城市系统的网络特征(特别是中心等级和集团成员资格)的变化。尽管纽约、巴黎、伦敦、东京和其他几个欧洲和北美的主要大都市在过去20年里主导着这一城市等级结构，但其他地方的网络角色和地位发生了很大变化。文章的结论是，对世界城市网络的研究再次表明，全球城市化模式的特征是世界系统分析所预期的不均衡发展动力。
The world's great cities are important nodes in the world economy. Major theorists (Friedman, Sassen, Castells) conceptualize global cities as the command and control centers for contemporary global capitalism. The authors' research offers a view of the global system based on a careful examination of the relations and connections between world cities and how those patterns change over time. Formal network analysis allows the authors 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 hierarchies 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.