Digital urban network connectivity: Global and Chinese internet patterns

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 409-428

  Tranos, Emmanouil ^a   Kourtit, Karima ^b   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Death of distance; Digital networks; Gravity model; Internet connectivity; World cities

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INTERNET; MODELING; URBANIZATION; WORLD CITY;

CHINA;

EID: 84902083054     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12097     Document Type: Article

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