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Middle East city networks and the “new urbanism”
Contemporary analysts of Middle East cities have been slow to take up new urbanism’s challenge to perceive the region’s cities via a social network lens. Yet a tenuous body of work does exist, most of it employing the network-as-metaphor, with some authors delving more deeply in exciting and promising ways to examine city networks, their implications, and the resultant regional system of cities. This essay highlights a number of the major network concepts available, including connectivity, centrality, black holes, brokers, levels of analysis, city system and density. Contributions by a range of regional specialists are presented in the context of the ongoing search for understanding of the evolving nature of city networks in the Middle East. The essay concludes with a discussion of insights network analysis might contribute to questions of the distribution of power, community, hierarchy and change across the longue durée.
Middle East city networks and the “new urbanism”
Contemporary analysts of Middle East cities have been slow to take up new urbanism’s challenge to perceive the region’s cities via a social network lens. Yet a tenuous body of work does exist, most of it employing the network-as-metaphor, with some authors delving more deeply in exciting and promising ways to examine city networks, their implications, and the resultant regional system of cities. This essay highlights a number of the major network concepts available, including connectivity, centrality, black holes, brokers, levels of analysis, city system and density. Contributions by a range of regional specialists are presented in the context of the ongoing search for understanding of the evolving nature of city networks in the Middle East. The essay concludes with a discussion of insights network analysis might contribute to questions of the distribution of power, community, hierarchy and change across the longue durée.
Middle East city networks and the “new urbanism”
Stanley, Bruce (author)
Cities ; 22 ; 189-199
2005-01-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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