the concept of 'entrepreneurial city'. A network connectivity model is adopted to assess connectivity patterns, using the …

with relying on market and competitive forcesto provide network services is the nature of supply and demandcharacteristics …

investigates - from a methodological viewpoint - the relationship between network connectivity and the rank-size rule (or Zipf …'s law) in an urban-economic network constellation. After a review of the literature, we address in particular the following …-economic network theories (e.g. entropy maximization, spatial interaction theory, etc.); (ii) the nature of the analytical relationship …

Many networks such as the Internet have been found to possess scale-free and small-world network properties reflected …-organizing processes and more specifically, preferential attachment. New nodes in a network tend to attach themselves to other vertices …, the diameter of the network is small in comparison to other network structures, and movement through the network is …

presented a research challenge to network analysis, that is, growth of the network. The present paper offers a network analysis … of the spatial commuting network in Germany. First, we study the spatial evolution of the commuting network over time …. Secondly, we compare two spatial interaction model (SIM) specifications, in order to replicate the actual network structure …