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Although increasing our knowledge of the properties of networks of cities is essential, these properties can be measured at the city level, and must be assessed by analyzing actor networks. The present volume focuses less on individual characteristics and more on the interactions of actors and institutions that create functional territories in which the structure of existing links constrains emerging links. Rather than basing explanations on external factors, the goal is to determine the extent to which network properties reflect spatial distributions and create local synergies at the meso level that are incorporated into global networks at the macro level where different geographical scales occur.

The paper introduces the way to use the graphs structure to identify empirically relevant groups and levels that explain dynamics. It defines what could be called “multi-level”, “multi-scale”, or “multidimensional” networks in the context of urban geography. It explains how the convergence of the network multi-territoriality paradigm collaboratively formulated, and manipulated by geographers and computer scientists produced the SPANGEO project, which is exposed in this volume.

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Rozenblat, C., Melançon, G. (2013). Introduction. In: Rozenblat, C., Melançon, G. (eds) Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks. Methodos Series, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6677-8_1

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