Michael Timberlake
Biographic Data
| ID | 3632765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Timberlake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Timberlake |
| SIGNATURE | TIMBERLAKE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 483 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Seoul, Korea’s Global City: A New Urbanism for Upward Mobility
Seoul, as one of Asia’s rising global cities, has been a place where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have taken place over the last five decades. This book explores the new urbanism in Seoul from the perspective of global political economy, focusing on the contexts in which the city has witnessed the transformation of its population structure, such as the rise of the global urban middle class and the city’s increased nodal fun…
Overurbanization
Overurbanization is a concept used by urbanization and development scholars to describe a situation in which a country's urban population is considerably larger than expected on the basis of that country's level of economic development. In some formulations, it refers to the national‐level ratio of percentage of the population living in urban areas to the percentage of the population employed in either nonagricultural occupations in general or ma…
Primate Cities
Primate cities are the largest cities among a territorially circumscribed group of cities, most often the most populous cities of a particular country. While a size hierarchy of cities is normal, when the largest city is much more populous than the next largest city, it is thought to inhibit well‐balanced economic growth across the territory containing the other cities. In the scholarly literature in the sociology of development produced in the m…
Chase-Dunn’s Scholarship on Cities and Urbanization
Are world cities also world immigrant cities? An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration
Systematic research on world cities neglects immigration, despite its significance to world city formation. In this article, we test a foundational, but untested, premise of world cities research: that global centrality in the world urban system is associated with larger, more diverse immigrant populations. Using an international sample of cities, we conduct multivariate regressions of Benton-Short et al.’s Urban Immigrant Index on the Globalizat…
Global cities with Chinese characteristics
World City Typologies and National City System Deterritorialisation: USA, China and Japan
The research constitutes the first effort to test the claim found in the world city theoretical literature that, as world cities strengthen ties with each other, their linkages with their countries’ hinterlands and national urban systems will weaken. This research offers a more nuanced exploration of this hypothesis by taking into account variation in the nature of the state across countries in which world cities are located as well as the source…
Testing a Global City Hypothesis: An Assessment of Polarization across US Cities
Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A “world city” theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities’ importance in a global network of cities to the degree of internal polarization within these cities. The research reported here locates 57 large US cities within this world city hierarchy and then empirically examines the…
Interlocking Corporate Directorates and the Global City Hierarchy
This paper examines the direct and indirect economic linkages of the most prominent cities in the world, those commonly referred to as global cities , in terms of the direct and indirect linkages of the boards of directors of Fortune Global 500 firms headquartered in a given city with boards of directors of other firms. Specifically, we identify the interlocks of corporate boards located within these major cities with other Fortune 500 boards of …
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent
Introduction: Mapping Changes in Urban Systems
Economic Globalisation and the Structure of the World City System: The Case of Airline Passenger Data
This paper reports results from an analysis of the relationship between the structure of the city-to-city network of global airline passenger flows and the interstate world system. While many scholars suggest that the broader parameters of the world system structure the urban hierarchy embedded within or articulated to it, others argue that the urban hierarchy is decoupling from the world system. The analyses show that there has been some modest …
Identifying China’s leading world city: A network approach
Primate Cities
A primate city usually refers to a city that is disproportionately large in terms of population size relative to other cities contained within a given geographically bounded area, such as a region, a nation, or even the globe. Occasionally, other qualities of cities than relative population size are used to identify primacy, for example, indicators of the relative concentration of important organizations, such as headquarters for leading corporat…
Korea’s Global City: Structural and Political Implications of Seoul’s Ascendance in the Global Urban Hierarchy
Seoul, South Korea has risen remarkably in the global hierarchy of cities since the mid-1970s, and arguably it is now among an elite group of about 15 of the most globally central cities in the world. While it is increasingly the object of urban studies research, few efforts have specifically focused on linking social structural changes within the city to its increasingly intense participation in the global economy. The globalization and world ci…
World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality
World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality , Josef Gugler, ed., Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xv, 396. This book seeks to redress what its editor regards as an imbalance in the social science discourse on globalization and cities by providing a collection of research on cities in the global South, in the lower income countries of the world. In his introduction to the book, much of wh…
World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997: An Empirical Analysis of Global Air Travel Links
The world's great cities are important nodes in the world economy. Major theorists (Friedman, Sassen, Castells) conceptualize global cities as the command and control centers for contemporary global capitalism. The authors' research offers a view of the global system based on a careful examination of the relations and connections between world cities and how those patterns change over time. Formal network analysis allows the authors to interpret …
World Cities in Asia: Cliques, Centrality and Connectedness
The world's leading cities are linked to one another by the flow of commodities, information and people to form part of the fabric of the world system. They are linked hierarchically, with some cities occupying more prominent positions than others in this global network of urban places. While this network is relatively stable, it is not immutable. The late 20th century saw deindustrialisation in the core countries, the shift of industries towards…
Chinese Urbanization, State Policy, and the World Economy
The usual Third World pattern of urbanization does not apply to Chinese urban development. China has not experienced the overurbanization and imbalances that often accompany growth in cities elsewhere. China's unique urban pattern results from national policies aimed at shaping urban growth. When those policies were relaxed, there was a tendency for Chinese urban patterns to conform with those of other Third World nations. Periods of less control…
Conceptualising and Mapping the Structure of the World System's City System
For the past 20 years, researches using the lens of world system theory (and other global political economy perspectives) have come to a better understanding of many of the anomalies in urbanisation patterns across more and less developed countries that had befuddled researchers whose assumptions left out global sources of social change. Recently this line of research has moved beyond regarding cities as mere objects of global forces, also theori…
The Politics of Capital Investment: The Case of Philadelphia
The Sociology of International Relations
The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies
Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective.Dane Archer , Rosemary Gartner
The Development of Underdevelopment in the Mid-South: Big Farmers and the Persistence of Rural Poverty
Dependence, Inequality, and the Growth of the Tertiary: A Comparative Analysis of Less Developed Countries
World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997: An Empirical Analysis of Global Air Travel Links
The world's great cities are important nodes in the world economy. Major theorists (Friedman, Sassen, Castells) conceptualize global cities as the command and control centers for contemporary global capitalism. The authors' research offers a view of the global system based on a careful examination of the relations and connections between world cities and how those patterns change over time. Formal network analysis allows the authors to interpret …
Conceptualising and Mapping the Structure of the World System's City System
For the past 20 years, researches using the lens of world system theory (and other global political economy perspectives) have come to a better understanding of many of the anomalies in urbanisation patterns across more and less developed countries that had befuddled researchers whose assumptions left out global sources of social change. Recently this line of research has moved beyond regarding cities as mere objects of global forces, also theori…
Economic Globalisation and the Structure of the World City System: The Case of Airline Passenger Data
This paper reports results from an analysis of the relationship between the structure of the city-to-city network of global airline passenger flows and the interstate world system. While many scholars suggest that the broader parameters of the world system structure the urban hierarchy embedded within or articulated to it, others argue that the urban hierarchy is decoupling from the world system. The analyses show that there has been some modest …
Economic Dependence, Overurbanization, and Economic Growth: A Study of Less Developed Countries
Excessively large and rapidly growing urban populations characterize social structural change in less-developed countries. This is in contrast to the developmental patterns which accompanied structural transformation in the presently rich, industrialized countries of the world. Many less-developed countries are thus said to be “overurbanized.” In this paper, quantitative cross-national data are brought to bear on the hypothesis that overurbanizat…
Dependence, Political Exclusion, and Government Repression: Some Cross-National Evidence
We examine the hypotheses, derived from the dependencylworld-system literature, that the degree of penetration of peripheral countries by foreign capital contributes to the formal exclusion of nonelite political participation and to the greater frequency with which governments actively repress opposition. Analysis of cross-national data from the 1960s and 1970s provides only weak support for the first hypothesis. Further, no direct effects of dep…
Global cities with Chinese characteristics
World Cities in Asia: Cliques, Centrality and Connectedness
The world's leading cities are linked to one another by the flow of commodities, information and people to form part of the fabric of the world system. They are linked hierarchically, with some cities occupying more prominent positions than others in this global network of urban places. While this network is relatively stable, it is not immutable. The late 20th century saw deindustrialisation in the core countries, the shift of industries towards…
Chinese Urbanization, State Policy, and the World Economy
The usual Third World pattern of urbanization does not apply to Chinese urban development. China has not experienced the overurbanization and imbalances that often accompany growth in cities elsewhere. China's unique urban pattern results from national policies aimed at shaping urban growth. When those policies were relaxed, there was a tendency for Chinese urban patterns to conform with those of other Third World nations. Periods of less control…
Identifying China’s leading world city: A network approach
Are world cities also world immigrant cities? An international, cross-city analysis of global centrality and immigration
Systematic research on world cities neglects immigration, despite its significance to world city formation. In this article, we test a foundational, but untested, premise of world cities research: that global centrality in the world urban system is associated with larger, more diverse immigrant populations. Using an international sample of cities, we conduct multivariate regressions of Benton-Short et al.’s Urban Immigrant Index on the Globalizat…
World City Typologies and National City System Deterritorialisation: USA, China and Japan
The research constitutes the first effort to test the claim found in the world city theoretical literature that, as world cities strengthen ties with each other, their linkages with their countries’ hinterlands and national urban systems will weaken. This research offers a more nuanced exploration of this hypothesis by taking into account variation in the nature of the state across countries in which world cities are located as well as the source…
Testing a Global City Hypothesis: An Assessment of Polarization across US Cities
Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A “world city” theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities’ importance in a global network of cities to the degree of internal polarization within these cities. The research reported here locates 57 large US cities within this world city hierarchy and then empirically examines the…
The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies
Interlocking Corporate Directorates and the Global City Hierarchy
This paper examines the direct and indirect economic linkages of the most prominent cities in the world, those commonly referred to as global cities , in terms of the direct and indirect linkages of the boards of directors of Fortune Global 500 firms headquartered in a given city with boards of directors of other firms. Specifically, we identify the interlocks of corporate boards located within these major cities with other Fortune 500 boards of …
Introduction: Mapping Changes in Urban Systems
Korea’s Global City: Structural and Political Implications of Seoul’s Ascendance in the Global Urban Hierarchy
Seoul, South Korea has risen remarkably in the global hierarchy of cities since the mid-1970s, and arguably it is now among an elite group of about 15 of the most globally central cities in the world. While it is increasingly the object of urban studies research, few efforts have specifically focused on linking social structural changes within the city to its increasingly intense participation in the global economy. The globalization and world ci…
Structured Inequality, Conflict, and Control: A Cross-National Test of the Threat Hypothesis
Journal Article Structured Inequality, Conflict, and Control: A Cross-National Test of the Threat Hypothesis Get access Kirk R. Williams, Kirk R. Williams University of New Hampshire Address correspondence to Kirk R. Williams, Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Timberlake Michael Timberlake Memphis State University Search for othe…
Chase-Dunn’s Scholarship on Cities and Urbanization
The Development of Underdevelopment in the Mid-South: Big Farmers and the Persistence of Rural Poverty
Dependence, Inequality, and the Growth of the Tertiary: A Comparative Analysis of Less Developed Countries
Multinationals from Developing Countries
Economic Dependence, Overurbanization, and Economic Growth: A Study of Less Developed Countries
Excessively large and rapidly growing urban populations characterize social structural change in less-developed countries. This is in contrast to the developmental patterns which accompanied structural transformation in the presently rich, industrialized countries of the world. Many less-developed countries are thus said to be “overurbanized.” In this paper, quantitative cross-national data are brought to bear on the hypothesis that overurbanizat…
Dependence, Political Exclusion, and Government Repression: Some Cross-National Evidence
We examine the hypotheses, derived from the dependencylworld-system literature, that the degree of penetration of peripheral countries by foreign capital contributes to the formal exclusion of nonelite political participation and to the greater frequency with which governments actively repress opposition. Analysis of cross-national data from the 1960s and 1970s provides only weak support for the first hypothesis. Further, no direct effects of dep…
Structured Inequality, Conflict, and Control: A Cross-National Test of the Threat Hypothesis
Journal Article Structured Inequality, Conflict, and Control: A Cross-National Test of the Threat Hypothesis Get access Kirk R. Williams, Kirk R. Williams University of New Hampshire Address correspondence to Kirk R. Williams, Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Timberlake Michael Timberlake Memphis State University Search for othe…
Urbanization in the world-economy
Middle Classes in Dependent Countries. Dale L. Johnson
Economic Sociology
The Development of Underdevelopment in the Mid-South: Big Farmers and the Persistence of Rural Poverty
The Sociology of International Relations
The Comparative Method: Moving beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies
Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective.Dane Archer , Rosemary Gartner
The Politics of Capital Investment: The Case of Philadelphia
Conceptualising and Mapping the Structure of the World System's City System
For the past 20 years, researches using the lens of world system theory (and other global political economy perspectives) have come to a better understanding of many of the anomalies in urbanisation patterns across more and less developed countries that had befuddled researchers whose assumptions left out global sources of social change. Recently this line of research has moved beyond regarding cities as mere objects of global forces, also theori…
Chinese Urbanization, State Policy, and the World Economy
The usual Third World pattern of urbanization does not apply to Chinese urban development. China has not experienced the overurbanization and imbalances that often accompany growth in cities elsewhere. China's unique urban pattern results from national policies aimed at shaping urban growth. When those policies were relaxed, there was a tendency for Chinese urban patterns to conform with those of other Third World nations. Periods of less control…
World Cities in Asia: Cliques, Centrality and Connectedness
The world's leading cities are linked to one another by the flow of commodities, information and people to form part of the fabric of the world system. They are linked hierarchically, with some cities occupying more prominent positions than others in this global network of urban places. While this network is relatively stable, it is not immutable. The late 20th century saw deindustrialisation in the core countries, the shift of industries towards…
World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997: An Empirical Analysis of Global Air Travel Links
The world's great cities are important nodes in the world economy. Major theorists (Friedman, Sassen, Castells) conceptualize global cities as the command and control centers for contemporary global capitalism. The authors' research offers a view of the global system based on a careful examination of the relations and connections between world cities and how those patterns change over time. Formal network analysis allows the authors to interpret …
Korea’s Global City: Structural and Political Implications of Seoul’s Ascendance in the Global Urban Hierarchy
Seoul, South Korea has risen remarkably in the global hierarchy of cities since the mid-1970s, and arguably it is now among an elite group of about 15 of the most globally central cities in the world. While it is increasingly the object of urban studies research, few efforts have specifically focused on linking social structural changes within the city to its increasingly intense participation in the global economy. The globalization and world ci…
World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality
World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality , Josef Gugler, ed., Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. xv, 396. This book seeks to redress what its editor regards as an imbalance in the social science discourse on globalization and cities by providing a collection of research on cities in the global South, in the lower income countries of the world. In his introduction to the book, much of wh…
Primate Cities
A primate city usually refers to a city that is disproportionately large in terms of population size relative to other cities contained within a given geographically bounded area, such as a region, a nation, or even the globe. Occasionally, other qualities of cities than relative population size are used to identify primacy, for example, indicators of the relative concentration of important organizations, such as headquarters for leading corporat…
Identifying China’s leading world city: A network approach
Introduction: Mapping Changes in Urban Systems
Economic Globalisation and the Structure of the World City System: The Case of Airline Passenger Data
This paper reports results from an analysis of the relationship between the structure of the city-to-city network of global airline passenger flows and the interstate world system. While many scholars suggest that the broader parameters of the world system structure the urban hierarchy embedded within or articulated to it, others argue that the urban hierarchy is decoupling from the world system. The analyses show that there has been some modest …
Interlocking Corporate Directorates and the Global City Hierarchy
This paper examines the direct and indirect economic linkages of the most prominent cities in the world, those commonly referred to as global cities , in terms of the direct and indirect linkages of the boards of directors of Fortune Global 500 firms headquartered in a given city with boards of directors of other firms. Specifically, we identify the interlocks of corporate boards located within these major cities with other Fortune 500 boards of …
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China: Fostering Talent
Economics (23 works) · Political science (21 works) · Geography (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Economic geography (16 works) · Economic growth (15 works) · Economy (13 works) · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics (13 works) · Global city (11 works) · Politics (10 works)