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View SchemaCentrality Measures in Spatial Networks of Urban Streets
| Authors | Paolo Crucitti, Vito Latora, Sergio Porta |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0504163 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504163 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.036125 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. E 73 (2006) 036125. |
Abstract
We study centrality in urban street patterns of different world cities represented as networks in geographical space. The results indicate that a spatial analysis based on a set of four centrality indices allows an extended visualization and characterization of the city structure. Planned and self-organized cities clearly belong to two different universality classes. In particular, self-organized cities exhibit scale-free properties similar to those found in the degree distributions of non-spatial networks.
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