Spatial hierarchy and emerging typologies inside world city network

• Authors: Ilya Chubarov
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The first part of the paper provides a new approach to measuring a spatial structure of world city network (WCN). Based upon the results of media- popular ‘global city rankings’ produced by several international think tanks, our calculation allowed to reveal global urban hierarchy and identify several subnetworks inside of world cities. The second part of the paper devotes to recent discussions on nature of globalization and urban macrosystems, bearing in mind ranking results. It is shown that a typological approach can provide more insights to a role of city as part of WCN from functional and relationships prospective.

Keywords

EN

world city; global city; globalisation; urbanisation; urban hierarchy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 30
• Pages: 23-30

Dates

published

2015-12-01

received

2014-06-11

revised

2015-03-16

accepted

2015-07-22

online

2015-10-20

Contributors

author

Ilya Chubarov

• Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Nakhimovsky 32, 117997, Moscow, Russia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/bog-2015-0032