1. Digital urban network connectivity: Global and Chinese internet patterns.
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Tranos, Emmanouil, Kourtit, Karima, and Nijkamp, Peter
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CITIES & towns , *INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) , *URBANIZATION , *URBAN growth , *INTERNET - Abstract
Cities are not only connected through conventional infrastructure, but also through digital infrastructure. This paper tests whether digital connectivity patterns follow traditional ones. Using a generalized spatial interaction model, this paper shows that geography (and distance) still matters for an extensive set of world cities. With a view to the rapidly rising urbanization, the attention is next focused on the emerging large cities in China to test the relevance of distance frictions − next to a broad set of other important explanatory variables − for digital connectivity. Various interesting results are found regarding digital connectivity within the Chinese urban system, while also here geography appears to play an important role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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