Bin Jiang

Gavle University, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, Division of Geomatics, Faculty Member

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I am Professor in Computational Geography at the Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of Gävle, Sweden.
Phone: +46 26 64 8901
Address: University of Gävle, SE-801 76 Gävle, Sweden

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Jiang B. and Yao X. (editors, 2010), Geospatial Analysis and Modeling of Urban Structure and Dynamics, Springer: Berlin, 440 pages.

The increasingly urbanized world has created various problems of environment, climate, consumptio... more The increasingly urbanized world has created various problems of environment, climate, consumption of resources, and public health, which are closely linked to the side-effects of urbanization such as sprawl, congestion, housing affordability and loss of open space. Fundamental to the urban problems are two separate yet related issues: urban structure and urban dynamics. The chapters collected in this book present an excellent profile of the current state of geospatial analysis and modelling, and demonstrate how these approaches can contribute to the study of various urban issues. The book addresses key themes including new ways of capturing data digitally at the individual level, the development of systems based around networks, the notion of linking hierarchy to networks to morphology as in complexity theory, and the development of new ways of integrating diverse urban processes through simulation paying careful attention to the basic econometric and statistical principles of spatial analysis.

With a foreword by Michael Batty and a epilog by Michael F. Goodchild

Papers by Bin Jiang

Flow dimension and capacity for structuring urban street networks

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008

This paper aims to measure the efficiency of urban street networks (a kind of complex networks) f... more This paper aims to measure the efficiency of urban street networks (a kind of complex networks) from the perspective of the multidimensional chain of connectivity (or flow). More specifically, we define two quantities: flow dimension and flow capacity, to characterize structures of urban street networks. To our surprise for the topologies of urban street networks, previously confirmed as a form of small world and scale-free networks, we find that (1) the range of their flow dimension is rather wider than their random and regular counterparts, (2) their flow dimension shows a power-law distribution, and (3) they have a higher flow capacity than their random and regular counterparts. The findings confirm that (1) both the wider range of flow dimension and the higher flow capacity can be a signature of small world networks, and (2) the flow capacity can be an alternative quantity for measuring the efficiency of networks or that of the individual nodes. The findings are illustrated using three urban street networks (two in the Europe and one in the USA).

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