World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997

By David A. Smith, M. Timberlake. 2001

290 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Jason Beckfield
2. A. Alderson
3. Xiulian Ma
4. M. Timberlake
5. David A. Smith
6. John Allen
7. David J. Brady
8. Matthew C. Mahutga

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Jason Beckfield
2. A. Alderson
3. Matthew C. Mahutga
4. David A. Smith
5. John Allen
6. David J. Brady
7. Wei Zhao
8. M. Timberlake

In Urban Studies

1. Jason Beckfield
2. A. Alderson
3. John Allen
4. M. Timberlake
5. Matthew C. Mahutga
6. Xiulian Ma
7. David A. Smith

Citations in the corpus

• Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint (2003, unknown): “Many urban regions, particularly in core countries, are the most powerful cities in the global city-system and contain key markets for material goods that require natural resources in their production (Chase-Dunn and Jorgenson 2003; Sassen 1991; Smith and Timberlake 2001).”
• Intercity Relations and Globalisation: The Evolution of the Global Urban Hierarchy, 1981—2007 (2010, unknown): “See Mahutga et al.; Derudder et al.; Orozco Pereira and Derudder, all in this issue, and the earlier research of Smith and Timberlake, 2001; Taylor and Aranya, 2008.”
• The Consequences of Economic Globalization for Affluent Democracies (2007, background): “…bound through multinational enterprises; (c) the ranking of cities within that global urban system; and (d) the consequences of this dimension of globalization for urban governance, form, and inequality (Alderson & Beckfield 2004, Castells 1996, Sassen 2001, Smith & Timberlake 2001, Taylor 2003).”
• City Systems and World Systems: Four Millennia of City Growth and Decline (2002, background): “Smith and Timberlake (2001) have demon- strated the contemporary rising importance of East Asian cities in the global airline transportation network.”
• Powerful City Networks: More than Connections, Less than Domination and Control (2010, background): “…unravel the complex of networks through which cities sustain, enhance, or lose their ability to influence and control what happens around them (Alderson and Beckfield, 2004; Beaverstock et al, 1999, 2000; Carroll, 2007; Neal, 2008; Smith and Timberlake, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2002; Taylor 2001, 2004).”
• Power and Position in the World City System1 (2004, background): “For instance, it is notable that Miami emerges as a very important city in network analyses of air travel performed by Smith and Timberlake (2001) and Shin and Timberlake (2000).”
• Economic Globalisation and the Structure of the World City System: The Case of Airline Passenger Data (2010, background): “The picture emerging from this body of scholarship is that of a hierarchical world city system (Smith and Timberlake, 2001; Alderson and Beckfield, 2004; Taylor, 2004) that can be measured at various time points.”