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Divergence of the world city system from national economies
dc.contributor.authorLeffel, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorMarahrens, Helge
dc.contributor.authorAlderson, Arthur S.
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-04T17:42:35Z
dc.date.available2024-05-04 13:42:33en
dc.date.available2023-04-04T17:42:35Z
dc.date.issued2023-04
dc.identifier.citationLeffel, Benjamin; Marahrens, Helge; Alderson, Arthur S. (2023). "Divergence of the world city system from national economies." Global Networks 23(2): 459-477.
dc.identifier.issn1470-2266
dc.identifier.issn1471-0374
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/176083
dc.description.abstractThis study shows that the position of cities in the world economy has diverged from national economies. Using data from 2016, we evaluate a network of 12,802 cities formed by the location decisions of 24,355 firms in terms of their point centrality, and show that the inter-city and inter-national systems have measurably decoupled, disrupting the previously-observed pattern in which the most powerful cities in the world city system were located in core countries, "mid-level" cities were in the semi-periphery,and the least powerful cities were in peripheral countries. Our findings support predictions that globalizing cities would diverge from national economies and that globalization would generate a new global geography that transects long-standing cleavages in the world system.
dc.publisherSpringer International Publishing
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.subject.othertransnational urbanism
dc.subject.otherworld city networks
dc.subject.otherworld/global cities
dc.subject.othernetwork analysis
dc.subject.othermultinational corporations
dc.subject.otherglobalization
dc.titleDivergence of the world city system from national economies
dc.typeArticle
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSocial Sciences (General)
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/176083/1/glob12405.pdf
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/glob.12405
dc.identifier.sourceGlobal Networks
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