本文主要总结后危机时期世界城市网络体系的变化趋势，并探讨这些趋势背后的深层次动因及影响要素。从网络体系的等级特征上看，中等层级的世界城市在网络中的地位迅速提高，使世界城市网络趋向于“钟形”结构。从区域属性上看，新兴经济体与亚太区域世界城市的崛起成为显著趋势，从而使世界城市网络的广度与深度得到扩展和提升。世界城市网络体系的新趋势，反映出金融危机后国际政治经济格局发生重大变化的背景下，全球化力量的调整与新布局。
With the impacts of global finance crises, great changes have occurred in the system of World City Network (WCN).This article, by tracing the changes, attempts to explore the new trends of WCN and the cause for these changes.The result shows, the rising of medium class world cites led to the new "Bell-shaped" structure of WCN.For the regional attribute, emerging market cities and Asian Pacific world cities showed great enhancement for the rank system of WCN.These new trends, improving the breadth depth of world city system, demonstrated the modification and rebalance of globalization in Post-recession era.
