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Revisiting urban hierarchy and specialization from a maritime perspective

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  • César Ducruet

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Port–city relationships have attracted paramount attention from a variety of scientific disciplines for several decades, such as geography, history, planning, regional science, sociology, and economics to name but a few. Yet, the extent to which maritime traffic specialization obeys the same spatial distribution than other economic activities remains underexplored today. This article tackles these lacunae head-on by proposing an empirical analysis of the way vessel tonnage per main categories of flows (e.g. containers, bulks, passengers) coincides with the demographic size of the world’s coastal and inland city-regions, using novel data on global inter-port vessel movements and harmonized population data over the period 1977–2008. Our main results confirm that such traffic is far from being randomly distributed, as its volume, value, and diversity concentrate at the top of the urban hierarchy. This research motivates the need to further integrate physical connectivity into the study of cities and their development mechanisms.

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  • César Ducruet, 2020. "Revisiting urban hierarchy and specialization from a maritime perspective," Maritime Policy & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(3), pages 371-387, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:marpmg:v:47:y:2020:i:3:p:371-387
    DOI: 10.1080/03088839.2019.1693065
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    1. Ducruet, César & Itoh, Hidekazu, 2022. "The spatial determinants of innovation diffusion: Evidence from global shipping networks," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 101(C).
    2. Gonzalez Laxe, Fernando & Armesto Pina, José Francisco & Sanchez-Fernandez, Patricio, 2021. "La conectividad portuaria de Galicia y del Norte de Portugal: características esenciales [The port connectivity of Galicia and the North of Portugal: main features]," MPRA Paper 106784, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Mounir Amdaoud & César Ducruet & Marc-Antoine Faure, 2021. "Port-city linkages and multi-level hinterlands: the case of France," EconomiX Working Papers 2021-29, University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX.
    4. Mounir Amdaoud & César Ducruet & Marc‐Antoine Faure, 2022. "The mutual specialization of port and urban functions: The case of France," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 101(2), pages 439-460, April.

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