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Not All Paths Lead to Rome: Analysing the Network of Sister Cities

2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-54140-7_14

1611-3349

Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Pablo Aragón, David Laniado, Yana Volkovich,

Economic and Technological Innovation

This work analyses the practice of sister city pairing. We investigate structural properties of the resulting city and country networks and present rankings of the most central nodes in these networks. We identify different country clusters and find that the practice of sister city pairing is not influenced by geographical proximity but results in highly assortative networks.