World city networks: Theories, methodology, and research topics
Received date: 2023-05-04
Revised date: 2023-08-01
Online published: 2024-01-19
Supported by
National Key Research and Development Plan(2022YFC3800801)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(52208074)
Since the 1980s, the study of systems of cities has seen two major breakthroughs, that is, the shift from the national scale to the global scale, and the shift from the central place theory to a network perspective. Starting in the late 1990s, world/global city research began to merge with the network perspective, resulting in a growing interest in the study of world city networks. World city network (WCN) research uses a network perspective to study cross-border inter-city relations on the global scale. A considerable amount of theoretical and empirical research on world city networks has emerged over the past two decades. The purpose of this article was to critically review recent advances and the main limitations of theories and methods underpinning current world city network research. The article outlined the global context that gives rise to the fundamental restructuring of world city systems. The essential tenets of the main theories pertaining to world city network research were then discussed, including the hierarchy of world cities, world city hypothesis, global city, and "space of flows". The specifications, key assumptions, and applications of the interlocking network model (INM) were presented, followed by a discussion of several social network analysis (SNA) tools commonly used in world city network research. Finally, the article discussed the limitations of existing theories and methodology and, on that basis, highlighted several areas that deserve further research.
XU Gang , WANG De , YAN Longxu , SHEN Zhengping . World city networks: Theories, methodology, and research topics[J]. PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY, 2024 , 43(1) : 179 -189 . DOI: 10.18306/dlkxjz.2024.01.013
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