Spatial rules generate urban patterns: Emergence of the small-world network

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 533-555

  Rezayan, H ^a   Delavar, M R ^a   Frank, A U ^b   Mansouri, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Physical reality; Small world network; Spatial rule

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING;

NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; PHYSICAL REALITY; SIMULATION MODEL; SMALL WORLDS; SPATIAL DESCRIPTIONS; SPATIAL RULE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PATTERNS;

SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS;

EID: 84884771070     PISSN: 18632351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68566-1_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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