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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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Schintler, L.A., Galiazzo, G. (2009). Measuring and Visualizing Urban Network Dynamics. In: Reggiani, A., Nijkamp, P. (eds) Complexity and Spatial Networks. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01554-0_15
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