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Analysis and Planning of Urban Networks

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Synonyms

Accessibility; Centrality urban design; City planning; GIS; Spatial networks; Urban form

Glossary

Accessibility:

Property of a location that describes the ease with which the location can be accessed from surrounding urban form and land use attractions

Built Environment:

A combination of urban form and land use mix of an area

Centrality:

Refers to metrics that describe how centrally an event is located in a spatial network (see “Centrality Measures”)

Land Use Pattern:

The spatial distribution of human activities accommodated within urban form

Urban Form:

The physical pattern of urban infrastructure and buildings

Introduction

Network analysis concepts have been used in the design and planning of cities for several decades. Until recently, however, they were common in only highly specialized applications – disaster planning problems, critical facilities’ location problems, and costly utility and transportation infrastructure design problems. Efforts to apply network analyses to...

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  1. Graduate School of Design, City Form Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Andres Sevtsuk

  2. City Form Lab, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore

    Andres Sevtsuk

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

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Sevtsuk, A. (2018). Analysis and Planning of Urban Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_43

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