U.S. cities in the world city network: Comparing their positions using global origins and destinations of airline passengers

Urban Geography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-91

  Derudder, Ben ^a   Witlox, Frank ^a   Taylor, Peter J ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airline data; U.S. cities; World city network

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; URBAN GROWTH; WORLD CITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247277518     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.28.1.74     Document Type: Article

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