Cities need to build on their resilience to deal with the combined effects of urbanization,
changing geopolitical contexts, and climate change. The physical form of cities has …

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 …

Urban scholars have studied street networks in various ways, but there are data availability
and consistency limitations to the current urban planning/street network analysis literature …

Street networks may be planned according to clear organizing principles or they may evolve
organically through accretion, but their configurations and orientations help define a city's …

Introduced in its contemporary form in 1946 (ref. 1), but with roots that go back to the
eighteenth century 2, the gravity law 1, 3, 4 is the prevailing framework with which to predict …

This book deals with the analysis of the structure of complex networks by combining results
from graph theory, physics, and pattern recognition. The book is divided into two parts. 11 …

Transportation networks play a crucial role in human mobility, the exchange of goods and
the spread of invasive species. With 90 per cent of world trade carried by sea, the global …

Urban planning and morphology have relied on analytical cartography and visual
communication tools for centuries to illustrate spatial patterns, conceptualize proposed …

Watts and Strogatz, with the publication in 1998 of their seminal paper on small-world
networks, opened the golden era of complex networks studies and showed in particular how …

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and
models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible …