Handbook of Cities and Networks: (Research Handbooks in Urban Studies series)

This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine, it offers a varied set of collaborations, highlighting different theoretical, historical and methodological perspectives.   International contributions assess the state of the field of network analysis, presenting interdisciplinary insights that draw on theory from geography, economics, sociology, history, archaeology and psychology, and outlining methodological tools that include ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative approaches. Illustrating a framework for integrating the diversity of urban networks, the Handbook demonstrates that by exploring urban networks with different combinations of levels and scales, new insights and opportunities can emerge.   Featuring focused studies on specific regions and cities, this state-of-the-art Handbook is essential reading for scholars and researchers of urban studies and regional science, particularly those focusing on the transformation of cities as connected spaces through intracity and intercity networks. Its core theoretical insights will also benefit graduate students in urban studies and network analysis.

Table of Contents:
Contents: PART I THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS OF CITIES AND NETWORKS 1 The levels and scales of urban networks 2 Céline Rozenblat and Zachary P. Neal 2 From networks of cities to systems of cities 16 Denise Pumain 3 Complex networks and fundamental urban processes 41 Luís M.A. Bettencourt PART II CITIES AND NETWORKS IN HISTORY 4 Settlement networks and sociocultural evolution 63 Elizabeth Bogumil and Christopher Chase-Dunn 5 Sizing up Roman urbanism 88 J.W. Hanson 6 Associational life in the rounding out of dynamic cities: an in-depth methodology and application to Newcastle city-region in the nineteenth century 107 Mike Barke and Peter J. Taylor PART III METHODS AND MODELS OF CITY–NETWORK INTERACTIONS 7 The structure of urban networks 127 Marc Barthelemy 8 Modeling the co-evolution of cities and networks 166 Juste Raimbault 9 Ties through place: socio-material network analyses in urban studies 194 Meg Bartholomew and Alasdair Jones 10 Theory and method in macro-comparative social network analysis 215 Matthew C. Mahutga and Robert Clark 11 The role of proximity and distance in inter-urban networks 239 Thomas Sigler, Kirsten Martinus and Petr Matous 12 About being in the middle: conceptions, models and theories of centrality in urban studies 252 Michiel van Meeteren PART IV NETWORK PROCESSES WITHIN CITIES 13 The city of opportunity: designing Cities4People 273 Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Tigran Haas 14 Community organizing and interorganizational network changes in a justice system reform coalition in Chicago 293 Brian Christens and Daniel G. Cooper 15 Racial/ethnic residential segregation and urban spatial networks in the United States 313 Kathryn Freeman Anderson and Joseph Galaskiewicz 16 Urban mobility and segregation examined through networked travel activity 331 Susan A. Burtner and Alan T. Murray 17 The impact of urban social life on sexual networks and health 350 Patrick Janulis and Michelle Birkett 18 Modeling dissemination of health information and beliefs in urban social networks 350 Sara S. Metcalf, Harvey D. Palmer, Qiuyi Zhang and Mary E. Northridge 19 Conflict resolution and opinion pooling in city planning 389 Michael Batty 20 Up close and impersonal: locative media and the changing nature of the networked individual in the city 409 Darryl A. Pieber and Anabel Quan-Haase 21 Far away ties, never so close: the geographical spread of social support resources for mobile individuals 427 Romina Cachia and Isidro Maya-Jariego PART V NETWORK PROCESSES BETWEEN CITIES 22 Is maritime transport an urban network? The interplay between global container flows and urban hierarchies 449 César Ducruet 23 Unravelling the forces underlying urban industrial agglomeration 472 Neave O’Clery, Samuel Heroy, François Hulot and Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz 24 Cities, networks, polycentrism: examining the place of polycentrism in spaces of flows 493 Kathy Pain and Shuai Shi 25 Intracity and intercity networks of multinational firms, 2010–2019 511 Céline Rozenblat 26 Uneven ties! The imposition of inequality through interscalar networks 557 Ronald Wall and Umakrishnan Kollamparambil 27 Research progress of Chinese city networks 585 Fenghua Pan, Cheng Fang and Xiande Li 28 The GaWC perspective on global-scale urban networks 601 Ben Derudder and Peter J. Taylor 29 Global cities, centripetal wealth transfer and uneven development 618 Christof Parnreiter Index 633

About the Author :
Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, US and Céline Rozenblat, Professor of Urban Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment,Université de Lausanne, Switzerland

Review :
'If you want to understand cities - the innovation and dynamism they generate and the way they sort and segregate people by class, race and other dimensions – you have to start by understanding that cities are networks. Zachary Neal and Céline Rozenblat have done all of us who care about cities a great service by pulling together the very best and brightest thinkers on cities and networks in this terrific volume.'