diminishing importance in world traffic, they have maintained their dominance in the network in terms of centrality and geographic …This paper revisits the classical issue of port-city relationships by applying for the first time network analytical … methods to maritime flows connecting cities of the world, over the period 1950–1990. A global matrix of interurban vessel …

Manuel Castells--one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists--has drawn together a stellar group of contributors … to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book … analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical …