scholarly journals Comparisons of the City Brand Influence of Global Cities: Word-Embedding Based Semantic Mining and Clustering Analysis on the Big Data of GDELT Global News Knowledge Graph

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6294
Author(s):  
Chenyu Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
News Media ◽  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Global City ◽  
Word Embedding ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
City Brand ◽  
Semantic Mining ◽  
The City

Global cities act as influential hubs in the networked world. Their city brands, which are projected by the global news media, are becoming sustainable resources in various global competitions and cooperations. This study adopts the research paradigm of computational social science to assess and compare the city brand attention, positivity, and influence of ten Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) Alpha+ global cities, along with their dimensional structures, based on combining the cognitive and affective theoretical perspectives on the frameworks of the Anholt global city brand dimension system, the big data of global news knowledge graph in Google’s Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), and the technologies of word-embedding semantic mining and clustering analysis. The empirical results show that the overall values and dimensional structures of city brand influence of global cities form distinct levels and clusters, respectively. Although global cities share a common structural characteristic of city brand influence of the dimensions of presence and potential being most prominent, Western and Eastern global cities differentiate in the clustering of dimensional structures of city brand attention, positivity, and influence. City brand attention is more important than city brand positivity in improving the city brand influence of global cities. The preferences of the global news media over global city brands fits the nature of global cities.

scholarly journals Bilbao: Necesidad de un modelo alternativo social frente al modelo de ciudad global

2017 ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Carolina Noriega Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Central Zone ◽  
Global City ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Work In Progress ◽  
International Firm ◽  
The City

ResumenBilbao quizás represente uno de los mejores ejemplos europeos de la transición de una ciudad industrial de largo recorrido a una ciudad global, con lo que ello supone de cambios de actividades y de transformaciones de su espacio social y económico, incluidas las propias representaciones del mismo. Así ha sido desde principios de la década de los 90. El escenario de esta transformación total se ha vivido en la ría (actualmente espacio de éxito), cuando en la industrialización lo era de diferencia y poder.El diseño de las ciudades globales que se plasma en esta zona central, sugiere que existen signos de agotamiento, y el intento de volver a realizarlo en Zorrotzaurre podría no causar el efecto esperado. Todo parece indicar, que existe una necesidad de plantear otras alternativas de hacer ciudad, haciendo que en ese mismo lugar, haya surgido una alternativa de base social: Zorrotzaurre Art Work in Progress, con fundamentos y prácticas comunitarias basadas en la interacción de creatividad, innovación y cultura.La principal conclusión de este trabajo es que es hora, no solo en Bilbao, de hacer ciudad de ciudadanos con piezas integradas y cohesionadas entre sí para un mejor y apropiado desarrollo de la ciudad y de las personas que hacen de ella lo que es.Palabras clave  Bilbao, ciudad global, firma internacional, alternativa social, ZAWPAbstractBilbao probably represents one of the best European examples of the transition of an industrial city of length crossed to a global city, with what it supposes of changes of activities and of transformations of his social and economic space, included the own representations of the same one. This way it has been from beginning of the decade of the 90. The scene of this total transformation has been lived in its river (nowadays place of success), when in the industrialization, it difference was and power.The design of the global cities that takes form of this central zone, suggests that signs of depletion exist, and the attempt of returning to realize it in Zorrotzaurre might not cause the awaited effect. Everything seems to indicate, that there exists a need to raise other alternatives of doing city, doing that in the same place, has arisen an alternative of social base: Zorrotzaurre Art Work in Progress, with foundations and community practices based on the interaction of creativity, innovation and culture.The principal conclusion of this work is that it is time, not only in Bilbao, to do citizens' city with integrated and united pieces, for a better and appropriate development of the city and of the persons who do of her what is.KeywordsBilbao, global city, international firm, social alternative, ZAWP

scholarly journals Cosmopolitan and border experiences in the global city of zootopia.

2021 ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Ana Virginia López Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Global City ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
City Space ◽  
Contrasting Habitats ◽  
The City

This paper analyses the Walt Disney’s animation film Zootopia (2016) within the context of contemporary cinematic representations of global cities as borderlands but also as bordering, exclusive, diverse and cosmopolitan places. Zootopia is a film about the city space, in this case, about the global city of Zootopia. The film reflects contemporary global cities in which the negotiation of space is a constant issue. It portrays a modern metropolis formed by different neighbourhoods with contrasting habitats such as Sahara, Jungle or Tundra, all comprised in the same space and separated by physical walls. Animals from every environment, size and form cohabit together in the city, but physical and metaphorical borders are erected between them. The film brings an inclusive message breaking with borders inside the global city and portraying moments of openness between the protagonists; a bunny and a fox

What Makes a City Bikeable? A Study of Intercity and Intracity Patterns of Bicycle Ridership using Mobike Big Data Records

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-75
Author(s):  
Ying Long ◽  
Jianting Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Average Distance ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Rating System ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Usage Frequency ◽  
Share Data ◽  
The City

This paper examines how mass ridership data can help describe cities from the bikers' perspective. We explore the possibility of using the data to reveal general bikeability patterns in 202 major Chinese cities. This process is conducted by constructing a bikeability rating system, the Mobike Riding Index (MRI), to measure bikeability in terms of usage frequency and the built environment. We first investigated mass ridership data and relevant supporting data; we then established the MRI framework and calculated MRI scores accordingly. This study finds that people tend to ride shared bikes at speeds close to 10 km/h for an average distance of 2 km roughly three times a day. The MRI results show that at the street level, the weekday and weekend MRI distributions are analogous, with an average score of 49.8 (range 0–100). At the township level, high-scoring townships are those close to the city centre; at the city level, the MRI is unevenly distributed, with high-MRI cities along the southern coastline or in the middle inland area. These patterns have policy implications for urban planners and policy-makers. This is the first and largest-scale study to incorporate mobile bike-share data into bikeability measurements, thus laying the groundwork for further research.

Global Justice at the Municipal Scale

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fonna Forman ◽  
Teddy Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Global City ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

Cities or municipalities are often the most immediate institutional facilitators of global justice. Thus, it is important for cosmopolitans and other theorists interested in global justice to consider the importance of the correspondence between global theories and local actions. In this chapter, the authors explore the role that municipalities can play in interpreting and executing principles of global justice. They offer a way of thinking about the cosmopolitan or global city not as a gentrified and commodified urban space, but as a site of local governance consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitan moral aims. They work to show some ways in which the city of Medellín, Colombia, has taken significant steps in that direction. The chapter focuses especially on how it did so and how it might serve as a model in some important ways for the transformation of other cities globally in a direction more consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitanism.

scholarly journals Research on Hybrid Index Method of Double-Layer B+ Tree for Power Big Data Considering Knowledge Graph

2021 ◽  
Vol 1771 (1) ◽  
pp. 012004
Author(s):  
Ling Chao Gao ◽  
Li Ming Yao ◽  
ZhiWei Yang ◽  
Fei Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Hybrid Index ◽  
Index Method

scholarly journals Understanding policing demand and deployment through the lens of the city and with the application of big data

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802098100
Author(s):  
Mark Ellison ◽  
Jon Bannister ◽  
Won Do Lee ◽  
Muhammad Salman Haleem
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Generalised Method Of Moments ◽  
The City

The effective, efficient and equitable policing of urban areas rests on an appreciation of the qualities and scale of, as well as the factors shaping, demand. It also requires an appreciation of the factors shaping the resources deployed in their address. To this end, this article probes the extent to which policing demand (crime, anti-social behaviour, public safety and welfare) and deployment (front-line resource) are similarly conditioned by the social and physical urban environment, and by incident complexity. The prospect of exploring policing demand, deployment and their interplay is opened through the utilisation of big data and artificial intelligence and their integration with administrative and open data sources in a generalised method of moments (GMM) multilevel model. The research finds that policing demand and deployment hold varying and time-sensitive association with features of the urban environment. Moreover, we find that the complexities embedded in policing demands serve to shape both the cumulative and marginal resources expended in their address. Beyond their substantive policy relevance, these findings serve to open new avenues for urban criminological research centred on the consideration of the interplay between policing demand and deployment.

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