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Measuring and Visualizing Urban Network Dynamics

In: Complexity and Spatial Networks

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  • Laurie A. Schintler

    (George Mason University)

  • Giacomo Galiazzo

    (George Mason University)

Abstract

An urban area is a complex, dynamic system of networks through which information, capital and power propagate across and within nodes of activities. While innovations in information technology are making it easier for transactions in these networks to occur over greater distances, the importance of spatial proximity in such networks is still very much relevant. Economic, social and other types of benefits drive activities to co-locate, where one may view the process as one of preferential attachment. The physical agglomeration of activities that arises out this process, at any point in time, is what we characterize in this chapter as the “backbone” of region. We hypothesize that such a feature is not static, but rather, it shifts in space over time in response to changing constraints and circumstances.

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  • Laurie A. Schintler & Giacomo Galiazzo, 2009. "Measuring and Visualizing Urban Network Dynamics," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Aura Reggiani & Peter Nijkamp (ed.), Complexity and Spatial Networks, chapter 0, pages 209-219, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-642-01554-0_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01554-0_15
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