Analysis and Planning of Urban Networks

Abstract

Most work in urban network analysis has relied on methods that were originally developed for social networks. There are, however, important adjustments in applying social network analysis methods on urban space. In social networks, for instance, connections between network elements are generally described topologically – as degrees of separation between people in a network, for example – where geography and geometry of relationships have little importance. Scholars of the built environment, on the other hand, are more often interested in precise geographical relationships of a spatial network, where distances,