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对测量世界城市网络构成的近期研究展示出一种等级趋向和区域趋向的混合态。本文使用专门创建的数据,用判别分析研究模型对两种趋向的相对重要性以及若干地区世界性城市组群做出评估。现已发现,世界城市区域性的重要程度并不亚于等级性。这个发现和研究世界城市的文献恰恰相反；在这些文献里,“世界城市等级论”是主导,而世界城市的区域性被相对忽视了。本论的发现除建议人们转变世界城市研究方向之外,还对一般意义上的全球化构成较广泛的影响。全球化并非要——笔者认为也不可能——打造一个同质的全球空间,而单一的全球等级体系势必造成同质空间。全球化过程总是同时造就多个规模巨大的社会活动。
Recent research into the formation of a network of metropolitan cities in the world shows a mixed state of level and regional trends. This article uses data specifically created to assess the relative importance of the two trends in discriminant analysis models and the cosmopolitan urban agglomerations in several regions. It has been found that the importance of regionality in the world’s cities is not inferior to that of rank. This finding is just the opposite of the literature on world cities; in these documents, “world city hierarchy” dominates while the regional dimensions of world cities are relatively neglected. In addition to suggesting that people change the direction of world urban research, the findings of this thesis also have a broader impact on the globalization in a general sense. Globalization is not necessary - I think it is impossible - to create a homogeneous global space, and a single global hierarchy is bound to create a homogeneous space. The process of globalization has always resulted in many large-scale social activities.