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Explain the concept of urban hierarchy. In what ways has globalisation dismantled traditional urban hierarchies and replaced them with new geographies of flows?

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Urban hierarchy is the graded ordering of settlements by population, functional complexity and the range of services they supply — a nested pyramid in which each tier serves the tiers below it. Globalisation has not abolished that pyramid so much as overlaid it with a second, non-territorial ordering in which rank derives from connectivity to…

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  • The Concept of Urban Hierarchy
  • Christaller's Central-Place Hierarchy
  • Lösch's Continuum and the Rank-Size Regularity
  • Measuring Rank: Functional Indices and the Indian Classes
  • What Globalisation Did to the Hierarchy
  • From Central Place to Command Centre
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion
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