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TY - JOUR
T1 - Asymmetric global network connectivities in the world city network, 2013
AU - Yang, Xiaolan
AU - Derudder, Ben
AU - Taylor, Peter J.
AU - Ni, Pengfei
AU - Shen, Wei
PY - 2017/2
Y1 - 2017/2
N2 - This paper builds upon world city network studies using the interlocking network model to introduce an additional way of measuring inter-city connectivity. Using firms’ service values for cities to indicate directions of potential workflows, a new measure of asymmetric network connectivity is specified to include uneven power relations in the analysis. This is then employed in analyses of the latest service values matrix (175 firms × 526 cities) for 2013. Two types of analyses are performed. First, the aggregate measures of asymmetric network connectivity are computed and compared to the conventional measure of global network connectivity. Results show an accentuation of the hierarchical tendencies in the world city network. Second, the asymmetric connectivity is disaggregated into its three components - dominant, equivalence and subordinate - to produce a set of further measures. Results tend to distinguish dominant ‘global places’, often financial centres, from places where firms ‘have to be’, largely capital cities of medium-sized states.
AB - This paper builds upon world city network studies using the interlocking network model to introduce an additional way of measuring inter-city connectivity. Using firms’ service values for cities to indicate directions of potential workflows, a new measure of asymmetric network connectivity is specified to include uneven power relations in the analysis. This is then employed in analyses of the latest service values matrix (175 firms × 526 cities) for 2013. Two types of analyses are performed. First, the aggregate measures of asymmetric network connectivity are computed and compared to the conventional measure of global network connectivity. Results show an accentuation of the hierarchical tendencies in the world city network. Second, the asymmetric connectivity is disaggregated into its three components - dominant, equivalence and subordinate - to produce a set of further measures. Results tend to distinguish dominant ‘global places’, often financial centres, from places where firms ‘have to be’, largely capital cities of medium-sized states.
KW - China
KW - Connectivity
KW - London
KW - New York
KW - Producer services
KW - World city network
U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2016.08.009
DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2016.08.009
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84981326618
VL - 60
SP - 84
EP - 90
JO - Cities
JF - Cities
SN - 0264-2751
IS - Part A
ER -