Collaborative Research: Globalization and the Network of World Cities

合作研究：全球化和世界城市网络

• 批准号: 0350078
• 负责人: Michael Timberlake
• 金额: $ 3.33万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2005-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0350078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Globalization; Network; World

Collaborative ProposalsSES-0350078Michael TimberlakeJeffrey KentorUniversity of UtahSES-0350065David SmithUniversity of California, IrvineIn this pilot study, the PIs will use a social network approach to study cities as important nodes in a worldwide web of exchanges. The major questions that will be explored are on the structure and change in a select network of cities. Specifically, which cities are more central in the network of world cities? Which are peripheral? Is the network of cities growing more tightly integrated over recent time? Do cities' roles in the global network reflect those of the nations in which they are located, or are they becoming independent of national trajectories? Finally, how is social life within cities influenced by their role in the global network? The research includes using formal network techniques to analyze data on flows of airline passengers and air cargo between all pairs of some 150-200 cities comparing patterns in 1990 and 2000, developing other city-to-city network data (e.g., telecommunications, oceanic cargo, human migration), and evaluating untested theoretical claims about the social consequences of global positioning of cities on social structural change within them. The project will contribute to scholarly as well as popular debates about globalization, begin to build a world city network database that will be available to other scholars, contribute to a number of important public policies debates, provide data and results relevant to debates about city and nation-based strategies for global economic competitiveness, the role for "the state" (at various levels) to promote that sort of development, possible tradeoffs between growth and polarization/inequality, and long-term challenges presented by emergent patterns and processes of globalization in the 21st century.

合作提案犹他州大学加州大学欧文分校在这项试点研究中，pi将使用社会网络方法来研究城市作为全球交流网络中的重要节点。将探讨的主要问题是在一个选定的城市网络的结构和变化。具体来说，哪些城市在世界城市网络中处于更中心的位置？哪些是外围设备？最近一段时间，城市网络是否变得更加紧密了？城市在全球网络中的角色是否反映了它们所在国家的角色，还是它们正在独立于国家轨迹之外？最后，城市在全球网络中的角色如何影响城市内的社会生活？这项研究包括使用正式的网络技术来分析航空公司乘客和航空货物在大约150-200个城市之间流动的数据，比较1990年和2000年的模式，开发其他城市对城市的网络数据（例如，电信，海洋货物，人类迁移），并评估关于城市全球定位对其内部社会结构变化的社会后果的未经检验的理论主张。该项目将促进关于全球化的学术和大众辩论，开始建立一个可供其他学者使用的世界城市网络数据库，为一些重要的公共政策辩论做出贡献，为有关全球经济竞争力的城市和国家战略的辩论提供数据和结果，“国家”（在各个层面）促进这种发展的作用，增长与两极分化/不平等之间可能存在的权衡，以及21世纪全球化新模式和进程带来的长期挑战。