idea of specialised cities ‐ attempts to classify cities using clustering techniquesUS urban hierarchynature of activities in cities ‐ direct implications for land‐use and propertycities outside states, a global hierarchyWorld cities and global cities...
Focuses on the new international division of labour in the capitalist system and evaluates how changes in multinational corporations and specialized corporate services have contributed to the emergence of a hierarchy of world cities. Its dimensions are explored, with reference to the conflicts and ...
Showing a limited preview of this publication: Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems G. WILLIAM SKINNER This paper considers the place of cities in imperial China's spatial struc-ture.1 Two hierarchies of central places and of associated territorial sys-tems are distinguished, one created an...
Tourist centers like Cancún and Acapulco are other examples of cities that have a reduced regional importance despite their relatively large populations. They provide vacation and recreation services for visitors from around the world. However, neither is a state capital, and they are not necessarily...
We propose to include MNC first-level subsidiary locations in a more refined measure of world-city status.doi:10.2747/0272-3638.20.3.268Brian J. GodfreyYu ZhouTaylor & Francis GroupUrban GeographyGodfrey, B., & Zhou, Y. (1999) Ranking world cities: Multinational corporations and the global ...
The theories of "Rank-Clock", "Rank-Distance Clock", and "Half-Life of City" suggested by Prof. M Batty, a famous urban geographer in the world, has been introduced in this paper. Using data of population and cities' rank at and above prefecture for more than 50 years since the found...
However, large cities are not the only place where business services locate. They are also present across all levels of the urban hierarchy, which they change through their networking functions, their multiplant organisation or their market strategy. The interest in monitoring the role played by ...
Cult Hierarchy refers to the different hierarchical organisations that define the various religious organisations of the Old World. All the cults of the Old World Pantheon in the Empire use slightly different structures to organise their followers, but t
and Chicago to Illinois. The provinces and states can in turn be mapped to the country (e.g., Canada or the United States) to which they belong. These mappings form a concept hierarchy for the dimensionlocation, mapping a set of low-level concepts (i.e., cities) to higher-level, more...
The county-level city and strong towns with big development potential should be given more administrative power to promote equal opportunity and fair right which beyond all doubt will help achieve the aim of harmonious development between different-scale cities. 展开 关键词: administrative hierarchy ...