This paper takes for granted the structural urbanisation trend in our world. It argues that there is a global competition among world cities in different parts of our planet. It aims to map out the relative disparities among a preselected set of major global cities by offering a benchmark analysis of these cities on the basis of a recently completed comparative study on their socioeconomic ‘pow...

Socioeconomic and place-based factors contribute to grocery shopping patterns which may be important for diet health. Big data provide the opportunity explore behaviours at population level. We used collected from Flipp, a free all-in-one savings deals content app, identify visitation stores estimate home-to-store distances, monthly frequencies number of unique visited in eight Canadian cities ...

In order to explore the impacts of various factors on air route connection, a probability model is constructed to simulate the Chinese airline network (CAN) in 2010, and the influences of tertiary industry output, degree and the spatial distance between two navigable cities on the analog results are discussed. Our research shows that, the opening of an air route is not completely determined by ...