Centrality has revealed crucial for understanding the structural properties of complex relational networks. Centrality is also relevant for various spatial factors affecting human life and behaviors in cities. Here, we present a comprehensive study of centrality distributions over geographic networks of urban streets. Five different measures of centrality, namely degree, closeness, betweenness,...

Mathematical models that describe the global spread of infectious diseases such as influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and tuberculosis (TB) often consider a sample of international airports as a network supporting disease spread. However, there is no consensus on how many cities should be selected or on how to select those cities. Using airport flight data that commercial airl...

Development and environmental issues of small cities in developing countries have largely been overlooked although these settlements are of global demographic importance and often face a “triple challenge”; that is, they have limited financial and human resources to address growing environmental problems that are related to both development (e.g., pollution) and under-development (e.g., inadequ...

Old Indian cities are often less accessible due to temporal restrictions and ever-rising pedestrian volume. In this research, the accessibility of footpath-level walkability condition old core has been assessed through Architectural Planning Research, considering 32 footpath stretches in Central Kolkata, India, as a case. The research considered 3 data sets, (a) 257 experts' opinions about univ...

Based on the subdistrict (jie-dao) data from 1982 and 1990 national population censuses, this research employs two approaches to investigate the urban population change patterns in Shenyang, China. The density function approach examines what function best characterizes its density distribution, how the density pattern has changed over time, how many centers can be identified in the city, and ho...

This is an enjoyably readable celebration of the city by a prominent urban economist, until now known more for heavy theory than writing for a popular audience. The basic target of the book is the anti-urbanism that abounds in the popular imagination, in the national politics of many countries, and even in certain corners of the academic community. Glaeser synthesizes the theory and evidence th...

The issues of community health relative to the impact which waste management experts on the wellness of the community is central to the overall capacity of the community. This paper therefore correlates waste management with the promotion of community health for community development goals in urban cities. The gap in the study is that, the quantum of waste generated in urban cities constitutes ...