Application of graph theory to the morphological analysis of settlements
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2017-12
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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In the following paper, the analyses of morphology of settlements were conducted using graph methods. The
intention of the author was to create a quantifiable and simple measure, which, in a quantitative way, would express
the degree of development of a graph (the spatial pattern of settlement). When analysing examples of graphs assigned
to a set of small towns and large villages, it was noticed that the graph development index should depend on: a relative
number of edges in relation to the number of nodes (β index), the number of cycles (urban blocks), which evidences the
complexity of the spatial pattern of settlement, and the average rank of nodes of a graph, which expresses the degree
of complexity of a street network.
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graph methods, morphological analysis, morphology of settlements, Silesia (SW Poland)
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 36 (4), 2017, pp. 65-80