Cities as Spatial and Social Networks

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Cities as Spatial and Social Networks is written by Xinyue Ye and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319953516 (ISBN 10) and 9783319953519 (ISBN 13).

This book reports on the latest, cutting-edge scholarship on integrating social network and spatial analyses in the built environment. It sheds light on conceptualization and Implementation of such integration, integration for intra-city level analysis, as well as integration for inter-city level analysis. It explores the use of new data sources concerning human and urban dynamics and provides a discussion of how social network and spatial analyses could be synthesized for a more nuanced understanding of the built environment. As such this book will be a valuable resource for scholars focusing on city-related networks in a number of ‘urban’ disciplines, including but not limited to urban geography, urban informatics, urban planning, urban sociology, and urban studies.