Spatial analysis of city network chracteristics on internet information flow in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration, China
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2016
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The conventional methods of analyzing city networks are mostly based on the economic or demographic statistics, which are often criticized for data missing and lack of relational data that can indicate the connections between cities. Meanwhile, another upcoming difficulties is how to make a quantitative distinct expression of the strengthened interaction and interdependence between cities with the advent of globalization, information and developed communication network.
In this paper, qualitative and quantitative research are made to study the network relationship between cities through the construction of intercity information flow network under the background of regionalization and the networking information. Internet searching indexes from the main searching engines in China like Baidu’s Index, 360’s so Index and Sina’s Weibo Index are used as a quantitative method to construct the regional urban information flow network, reflecting the exposure rates of selected keyword from most Chinese users on the Internet and visualizing the intercity relationship, and analyze the city network characteristics and influencing factors of one of the three "growth pole" areas in China —— “Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei” urban agglomeration, which was preliminarily built up as pilot trenchant since the early period of the Republic of China with clear hierarchy and close links to the business of urban network system and used to be one of the fast-developing regions in the modern history of China’s urbanization but now seems to have encountered the bottleneck of economic development comparatively.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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