GaWC Data Set 25

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Explosive City Growth in the Modern World-System: Urban Demographic Changes

P.J. Taylor, A. Firth, M. Hoyler and D. Smith

The data collection was part of the project Cities in Economic Expansion and Current Crisis of the Modern World-System, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (2007-2010)

 

These data constitute the basis of part of the analysis in GaWC Research Bulletin No. 316 “Explosive City Growth in the Modern World-System: An Initial Inventory Derived from Urban Demographic Changes”.

The data consist of the following:

  1. The initial five city rosters (1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2007)
  2. Demographic change for all initial roster cities (% change per annum)
  3. Typologies of demographic spurts (16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th centuries)
  4. Air travel connections: the alternative measure of explosive city growth for 1970-2005

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The data were produced by P.J. Taylor, A. Firth, M. Hoyler and D. Smith and constitute Data Set 25 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network (http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/) publication of inter-city data.