City-Dyad Analyses of China's Integration into the World City Network

Taylor, Peter, Derudder, Ben, Hoyler, Michael, Ni, Pengfei and Witlox, Frank (2014) City-Dyad Analyses of China's Integration into the World City Network. Urban Studies, 51 (5). pp. 868-882. ISSN 0042-0980

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Abstract

The business connections between Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai and other major world cities are investigated using the interlocking network model based upon the location strategies of advanced producer service firms. This approach emphasises non-hierarchical relations between cities. A key new finding is that city-dyad analysis enhances the prominence of these China cities compared with simple ranking by total global network connectivity. This suggests that Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing have developed more strategically important roles in the world city network than previously understood. Yet the geographies of these links are distinctive, with Shanghai shown to be better connected to the more important world cities such as London and New York than Beijing; and Beijing is found to be better connected to political world cities such as Washington and Brussels, and to other Pacific Asian cities, than Shanghai. The results are interpreted as suggestions for developing a new research programme.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	financial centres, Hong Kong, Shangai, globalisation, geography, pathways, power
Subjects:	F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Geography and Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Users 6424 not found.
Date Deposited:	15 May 2014 09:54
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 22:45
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/16431

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