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Digital urban network connectivity: Global and Chinese internet patterns

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  • Tranos, Emmanouil
  • Kourtit, Karima
  • Nijkamp, Peter

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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.

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Handle: RePEc:eee:paresc:v:93:y:2014:i:2:p:409-429
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12097
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