Washington D.C.s Global Connectivity

P.J. Taylor created what he calls a "Atlas of Hinterlands" of the top 123 Global Cities. These 123 cities are ranked as how closely connected a city is to the global network of cities "connectivity pattern". Each global city is represented with the same size square and is placed on the map in relation to their actual geographic position. As you can see in the Cartogram above, Washington D.C. (WC) is coded with the color black. After the research was completed D.C.'s Statistics came back as follows: Most over-linked city: Chicago (0.079) Most under-linked city: Dubai (-0.069) Specificity of hinterworld: 0.027. Which means it is most closely related to the City of Chicago, and is furthest away from the city of Dubai in relation to the scale of global connectivity. With Madrid having the highest specificity number of .013 D.C. is not far behind with .027 putting it in the top 10 of the entire list. Using the Cartograms key and noting that red represents the cities highest connections you can see that D.C. is highly linked to all of the major cities across North America, which is to be expected. It is also highly internationally linked to Singapore, Kiev, France, and Rio De Janeiro. It is farthest away from international cities like Lisbon, Tapei, Istanbul, and Dubai.