Complex systems are very often organized under the form of networks where nodes and
edges are embedded in space. Transportation and mobility networks, Internet, mobile phone …

The emergence of big data brings new opportunities for us to understand our socioeconomic
environments. We use the term social sensing for such individual-level big geospatial data …

Delineating travel patterns and city structure has long been a core research topic in transport
geography. Different from the physical structure, the city structure beneath the complex travel …

The article revisits spatial interaction and distance decay from the perspective of human
mobility patterns and spatially-embedded networks based on an empirical data set. We …

Understanding the spatial structure of a megaregion, like the Pearl River Delta (PRD) or the
emerging Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in China, is important for …

Title: Urban empires: cities as global rulers in the new urban world/edited by Edward
Glaeser, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp. Description: 1 Edition.| New York City …

Academic literature has been continuously growing at such a pace that it can be difficult to
follow the progression of scientific achievements; hence, the need to dispose of quantitative …

Polycentric urban development has become the buzzword among urban scholars, decision-
makers, and planners around the world. From the existing polycentric urban research, a …

A functional urban area (FUA) is composed of nearby physical urban areas that have
intense functional connections or linkages. This notion gains increasing popularity in recent …

Urban agglomeration is an important strategy used to promote economic development and
urbanization in China. Understanding the structure of urban agglomeration is therefore …