The Connected City: How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis

摘要

Although traditionally the world cities literature has focused on the internal structure of individual world cities and comparing world cities, there has recently been an increasing interest in measuring and analyzing the relations between world cities. Since the seminal conceptual work of Friedmann (1986) and Sassen (1991), the literature on world city networks has extensively focused on the measurement of network relations between world cities (see e.g., Taylor, 2001; Alderson and Beckfield, 2004). Concurrently, one of the largest and most active academic communities working on the measurement of world city networks revolves around the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network. Recently, two new books have appeared that have strong ties to this research network.