Handbook of Cities and Networks

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

'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.'

• Contents:PART I THEORETICAL CONCEPTIONS OF CITIES AND NETWORKS1 The levels and scales of urban networks 2Céline Rozenblat and Zachary P. Neal2 From networks of cities to systems of cities 16Denise Pumain3 Complex networks and fundamental urban processes 41Luís M.A. BettencourtPART II CITIES AND NETWORKS IN HISTORY4 Settlement networks and sociocultural evolution 63Elizabeth Bogumil and Christopher Chase-Dunn5 Sizing up Roman urbanism 88J.W. Hanson6 Associational life in the rounding out of dynamic cities: an in-depthmethodology and application to Newcastle city-region in the nineteenthcentury 107Mike Barke and Peter J. TaylorPART III METHODS AND MODELS OF CITY–NETWORKINTERACTIONS7 The structure of urban networks 127Marc Barthelemy8 Modeling the co-evolution of cities and networks 166Juste Raimbault9 Ties through place: socio-material network analyses in urban studies 194Meg Bartholomew and Alasdair Jones10 Theory and method in macro-comparative social network analysis 215Matthew C. Mahutga and Robert Clark11 The role of proximity and distance in inter-urban networks 239Thomas Sigler, Kirsten Martinus and Petr Matous12 About being in the middle: conceptions, models and theories of centrality inurban studies 252Michiel van MeeterenPART IV NETWORK PROCESSES WITHIN CITIES13 The city of opportunity: designing Cities4People 273Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Tigran Haas14 Community organizing and interorganizational network changes in a justicesystem reform coalition in Chicago 293Brian Christens and Daniel G. Cooper15 Racial/ethnic residential segregation and urban spatial networks in theUnited States 313Kathryn Freeman Anderson and Joseph Galaskiewicz16 Urban mobility and segregation examined through networked travel activity 331Susan A. Burtner and Alan T. Murray17 The impact of urban social life on sexual networks and health 350Patrick Janulis and Michelle Birkett18 Modeling dissemination of health information and beliefs in urban socialnetworks 350Sara S. Metcalf, Harvey D. Palmer, Qiuyi Zhang and Mary E. Northridge19 Conflict resolution and opinion pooling in city planning 389Michael Batty20 Up close and impersonal: locative media and the changing nature of thenetworked individual in the city 409Darryl A. Pieber and Anabel Quan-Haase21 Far away ties, never so close: the geographical spread of social supportresources for mobile individuals 427Romina Cachia and Isidro Maya-JariegoPART V NETWORK PROCESSES BETWEEN CITIES22 Is maritime transport an urban network? The interplay between globalcontainer flows and urban hierarchies 449César Ducruet23 Unravelling the forces underlying urban industrial agglomeration 472Neave O’Clery, Samuel Heroy, François Hulot and Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz24 Cities, networks, polycentrism: examining the place of polycentrism inspaces of flows 493Kathy Pain and Shuai Shi25 Intracity and intercity networks of multinational firms, 2010–2019 511Céline Rozenblat26 Uneven ties! The imposition of inequality through interscalar networks 557Ronald Wall and Umakrishnan Kollamparambil27 Research progress of Chinese city networks 585Fenghua Pan, Cheng Fang and Xiande Li28 The GaWC perspective on global-scale urban networks 601Ben Derudder and Peter J. Taylor29 Global cities, centripetal wealth transfer and uneven development 618Christof ParnreiterIndex 633