Methods for Multilevel Analysis and Visualisation of Geographical Networks

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Céline Rozenblat, Guy Melançon

   Pages 1-15

3. Concepts and Visualizations of Multilevel Spatial Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. A Small World Perspective on Urban Systems

      • Céline Rozenblat, Guy Melançon

      Pages 19-32

   3. Topological Clustering for Geographical Networks

      • Jean-François Gleyze

      Pages 33-53

   4. Theoretical Models of Time-Space: The Role of Transport Networks in the Shrinking and Shrivelling of Geographical Space

      • Alain L’Hostis

      Pages 55-66

4. Tools for Networks Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Structural Analysis of Networks

      • Guy Melançon, Céline Rozenblat

      Pages 69-80

   3. Graph Visualization For Geography

      • Antoine Lambert, Romain Bourqui, David Auber

      Pages 81-102

   4. Exploring Hierarchies Using the DAGMap

      • Pierre-Yves Koenig

      Pages 103-117

5. Empirical Studies of Spatial Multilevel Networks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Ports in a World Maritime System: A Multilevel Analysis

      • César Ducruet

      Pages 121-140

   3. Comparing Multilevel Clustering Methods on Weighted Graphs: The Case of Worldwide Air Passenger Traffic 2000–2004

      • Céline Rozenblat, Guy Melançon, Romain Bourqui, David Auber

      Pages 141-154

   4. Multilevel Analysis of Corporations Networks: A Comparison Between Agro-Food and Automobile Strategies for Urban Development

      • Charles Bohan, Bérengère Gautier

      Pages 155-176

   5. The Capture and Diffusion of Knowledge Spillovers: The Influence of the Position of Cities in a Network

      • Marie-Noëlle Comin

      Pages 177-188

   6. Defining Polycentric Urban Areas Through Commuting Cohesion in France

      • Patrice Tissandier, Trung Tien Phan Quang, Daniel Archambault

      Pages 189-206

6. Back Matter

   Pages 207-223

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This leading-edge study focuses on the latest techniques in analysing and representing the complex, multi-layered data now available to geographers studying urban zones and their populations. The volume tracks the successful results of the SPANGEO Project, which was set up in 2005 to standardize, and share, the syncretic, multinational mapping techniques already developed by geographers and computer scientists. SPANGEO sought new and responsive ways of visualising urban geographical and social data that reflected the fine-grained detail of the inputs. It allowed for visual representation of the large and complex networks and flows which are such an integral feature of the dynamism of urban geography.   SPANGEO developed through the ‘visual analytics loop’ in which geographers collaborated with computer scientists by feeding data into the design of visualisations that in turn spawned the urge to incorporate more varied data into the visualisation. This volume covers all the relevant aspects, from conceptual principles to the tools of network analysis and the actual results flowing from their deployment. Detailed case studies set out in this volume include spatial multi-level analyses of flows in airports and sea ports, as well as the fascinating scientific networks in European cities. The volume shows how the primary concern of geography—the interaction of society with physical space—has been revivified by the complexities of new cartographical and statistical methodologies, which allow for highly detailed mapping and far more powerful computer analysis of spatial relationships.

• Computing methodologies
• Concepts and visualisation of multilevel spatial networks
• DAGmap
• Defining polycentric Urban areas
• Multilevel analysis of corporations networks
• Networks of air traffic passengers flows
• Port systems and Maritime networks
• SPANGEO Project (Spatial networks in geography)
• Scientific complex networks of European cities
• Structural analysis of networks
• Tools for network analysis
• Topological aggregation Tools
• Urban development
• Visualization of graphs

• , Institute of Geography, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Céline Rozenblat

• , LABRI, University of Bordeaux 1, Talence cedex, France

  Guy Melançon

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