Cities are considered to be among the largest and most complex artificial networks created by human beings. This monograph uses methods from spectral graph theory and statistical physics to lay the theoretical foundations for studying compact urban topology.

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Autorentext

Philippe Blanchard is Professor of Mathematical Physics at Bielefeld University in Germany. Erwin Bruening is a Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Inhalt
Complex Networks of Urban Environments.- Wayfinding and Affine Representations of Urban Environments.- Exploring Community Structure by Diffusion Processes.- Spectral Analysis of Directed Graphs and Interacting Networks.- Urban Area Networks and Beyond.