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Urban Street Networks, a Comparative Analysis of Ten European Cities

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Strano, Emanuele, Viana, Matheus, da Fontoura Costa, Luciano, Cardillo, Alessio, Porta, Sergio, Latora, Vito·2013·Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

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We compare the structural properties of the street networks of ten different European cities using their primal representation. We investigate the properties of the geometry of the networks and a set of centrality measures highlighting differences and similarities between cases. In particular, we found that cities share structural similarities due to their quasiplanarity but that there are also several distinctive geometrical properties. A principal component analysis is performed on the distributions of centralities and their respective moments, which is used to find distinctive characteristics by which we can classify cities into families. We believe that, beyond the improvement of the empirical knowledge on streets' network properties, our findings can open new perspectives into the scientific relationship between city planning and complex networks, stimulating the debate on the effectiveness of the set of knowledge that statistical physics can contribute for city planning and urban-morphology studies.

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Authors
Strano, E., Viana, M., da Fontoura Costa, L., Cardillo, A., Porta, S., & Latora, V.
Affiliations
  • University of Strathclyde (GB)
  • Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
  • Institute of Physics of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Universidad de Zaragoza (ES)
  • University of London (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Strano, Emanuele
  • Viana, Matheus
  • Cardillo, Alessio
  • Porta, Sergio
  • Latora, Vito
Venue
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
Published
2013-12
Volume
40
Issue
6
Pages
1071-1086
ISSN
  • 0265-8135 (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-3417
OpenAlex
W2086799036
Cited by
121
References
57
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Environment and Planning B Planning and Design (publishedVersion)
  • Scientific Electronic Library Online (São Paulo Research Foundation, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Global Urban Networks and Dynamics
Keywords
urban road networks, network geometry, network centrality, urban classification, urban morphology, urban planning, complex networks, European cities

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