Explosive City Growth in the Modern World-System: Urban Demographic Changes
Peter J. Taylor, Ann Firth, Michael Hoyler and Dennis 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 (2007-10).
These data constitute the basis of part of the analysis in Explosive city growth in the modern world-system: an initial inventory derived from urban demographic changes (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 316).
They are also used in the chapter Cities (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 380) and in Newcastle’s long nineteenth century: a world-historical interpretation of making a multi-nodal city region (first published as GaWC Research Bulletin 427).
| Description | Files |
|---|---|
| The initial five city rosters 1600, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2007 | |
| Demographic change for all initial roster cities (% change per annum) | |
| Typologies of demographic spurts 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th centuries | |
| Air travel connections: the alternative measure of explosive city growth for 1970-2005 |
References
Taylor, P.J., Firth, A., Hoyler, M. and Smith, D. (2010) Explosive city growth in the modern world-system: an initial inventory derived from urban demographic changes, Urban Geography, 31 (7), 865-884.
Taylor, P.J., Hoyler, M. and Smith, D. (2015) Cities, in Wallerstein, I. (ed) The World Is Out of Joint: World-Historical Interpretations of Continuing Polarizations, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 39-53. [Translated into Spanish and republished in 2016 as: Ciudades, in Wallerstein, I. (ed) El mundo está desencajado: interpretaciones histórico-mundiales de las continuas polarizaciones, 1500-2000, México: Siglo XXI Editores, 55-72.]
Barke, M. and Taylor, P.J. (2015) Newcastle’s long nineteenth century: a world-historical interpretation of making a multi-nodal city region, Urban History, 42 (1), 43-69.
As per our data protocol, the following acknowledgement should accompany any public use of the data:
Acknowledgement: The data were produced by Peter J. Taylor, Ann Firth, Michael Hoyler and Dennis Smith and constitute Dataset 25 of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network (https://gawc.lboro.ac.uk/) publication of inter-city data.