Complexity and Spatial Networks: In Search of Simplicity

✍ Scribed by Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp (auth.), Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 282
Series: Advances in Spatial Science
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a panoramic view of recent advances in spatial complexity, in order to enhance our understanding of complex spatial networks by simplicity in terms of both the basic driving forces of systemic impacts and the modelling of such systems. Simple models mapping out the evolution of complex networks are undoubtedly a key issue in spatial economic research. In exploring this untrodden ground, this volume pursues new interdisciplinary pathways for theoretical, methodological and empirical analysis in the complex interconnected space-economy. It highlights ‘evolutionary’ directions and ‘unifying’ perspectives in this fascinating research field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 10-10
Simplicity in Complex Spatial Systems....Pages 1-7
The “Thermodynamics” of the City....Pages 11-31
Macro and Micro Dynamics of the City Size Distribution....Pages 33-49
A Morphogenetic Perspective on Spatial Complexity....Pages 51-60
Algorithmic Complexity and Spatial Simplicity....Pages 61-73
Polyplexity....Pages 75-88
Front Matter....Pages 80-80
Complexity, Evolution and Learning....Pages 91-104
Homophily, Conformity, and Noise in the (Co-)Evolution of Complex Social Networks....Pages 105-115
Complex Evolution and Learning....Pages 117-131
Proximity, Social Capital and the Simon Model of Stochastic Growth....Pages 133-140
Evolutionary and Preferential Attachment Models of Demand Growth....Pages 141-150
Modelling the Economy as an Evolving Space of Flows....Pages 151-164
Front Matter....Pages 166-166
Effects of a Simple Mode Choice Model in a Large-Scale Agent-Based Transport Simulation....Pages 167-186
Complex, Adaptive Systems, Through Time and Across Space....Pages 187-207
Measuring and Visualizing Urban Network Dynamics....Pages 209-219
Spatial Autocorrelation in Spatial Interaction....Pages 221-237
Complex Networks Analysis of Commuting....Pages 239-255
Spatial and Commuting Networks....Pages 257-271
Front Matter....Pages 274-274
From Complexity to Simplicity....Pages 275-284

✦ Subjects

Regional/Spatial Science; Economic Geography

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