Glocalisation spatiale dans les villes-hub portuaires asiatiques : comparaison de Hong Kong et Singapour

LEE, Sung-Woo, DUCRUET, César, Spatial glocalization in Asian hub port cities: a comparison of Hong Kong and Singapore, Urban Geography (forthcoming).

Port competition on both the regional and global scales results in port concentration and deconcentration, respectively. While a number of recent studies interpret such phenomena as the effects of global forces such as containerization, few researchers have investigated local forces, such as the evolving relationships between urban policy and port growth. This paper compares how two global hub port cities, Hong Kong and Singapore, have sustained their port activities while transforming into major economic centres. Entropy indexes are calculated by district based on service industries related to port activities between 1993 and 2004. The results show the influence of port competition, lack of space, congestion, on the shift of port-related activities. It concludes that cross-border integration is one main differentiating factor in the evolution of the two hub port cities.