Hypergraphs and City Street Networks
Physics and Society
2011-06-03 v1 Social and Information Networks
Abstract
The map of a city's streets constitutes a particular case of spatial complex network. However a city is not limited to its topology: it is above all a geometrical object whose particularity is to organize into short and long axes called streets. In this article we present and discuss two algorithms aiming at recovering the notion of street from a graph representation of a city. Then we show that the length of the so-called streets scales logarithmically. This phenomenon leads to assume that a city is shaped into a logic of extension and division of space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.0297,
title = {Hypergraphs and City Street Networks},
author = {Thomas Courtat and Catherine Gloaguen and Stéphane Douady},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.0297},
year = {2011}
}