Cities Network Along the Silk Road : The Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2017

✍ Scribed by Pengfei Ni, Marco Kamiya, Ruxi Ding (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 315
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Global Urban Competitiveness Index: Annual Ranking....Pages 3-14
Global Urban Competitiveness: Theoretical Framework....Pages 15-29
Global Urban Competitiveness: General Analysis....Pages 31-50
Global Urban Competitiveness: Comparative Analysis from Different Perspectives....Pages 51-64
Global Urban Competitiveness: Comparative Analysis of Level-2 Indicators....Pages 65-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Analytical Framework....Pages 113-120
Historical Evolution of the Ancient Silk Road....Pages 121-125
Current Development of Silk Road Cities: An Emerging Irregular Cities Network....Pages 127-152
Prospects of the Silk Road Cities Network....Pages 153-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Global Connection and Technological Innovation....Pages 167-179
Urban Characteristics, National Characteristics and Global Connection of Primate Cities....Pages 181-196
Global Connection and Doing Business....Pages 197-220
Large Enterprises in North America: Where They Locate and Why....Pages 221-233
The Conjunction of Networked Agglomeration and Location Factor in Chinese Cities: Taking FDI and Domestic Investment as an Example....Pages 235-267
Competitiveness of the Metropolis in the Global North and South: Economics, Planning, Financing and Governance....Pages 269-289
Back Matter....Pages 291-302

✦ Subjects

Urban Economics;Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns);Regional and Cultural Studies

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