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Urban Economics - Exercise 2022

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1.- GaWC: Please can you analyse the following figure?

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2.1- Can you analyse, please, the concept of DISTANCE nowadays?

2.2.-The following figure encompasses the Top 25 airports worldwide.

Iturria: Derudder, B., & Witlox, F. (2007). Data sources for analysing transnational urban
networks: a critical overview. Flux, (2), 22-32.

Can you analyse, please, the concept of Closeness Centrality in connection to the upper
figure?
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3.- The following global network stands for maritime ports.

3.1.- Can you please analyse the topology of this network?

3.2.- Which is the closest port from your home town? How well is it connected?
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4.- The following figure stands for the Top 100 multinational networks:

4.1.- Please, can you analyse the topology of this network?

4.2.- Would you say that both London and New York have an nbetweeness bigger
than 0.5?
Would you say that Madrid has an ncloseness bigger than 0.5? In addition, what
about Sydney?
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5.- “Global urban networks of recording, UK digital music market”

Iturria: Watson, A. (2012). The world according to iTunes: mapping urban networks of
music production. Global Networks, 12(4), 446-466.

Please, can you analyse the European nodes within this digital production network?

Can you also analyse the case of Ibiza?

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6.- Can you please explain the following concepts?

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7.- Derudder, B., & Taylor, P. J. (2018). Central flow theory: Comparative connectivities in
the world-city network. Regional Studies, 52(8), 1029-1040.

7.1.- Please can you identify the top BRICS cities and analyse their global positioning?

7.2.- Is there a matching between the hierarchy of cities and the hierarchy of cultural
infrastructures?