Figure 3

Simulating the functional organisation of synthetic urban models. Top Left: Small-world networks according to the Watts-Strogatz model (see Methods) with different rewiring probabilities (encoded by size) and dimensions (from 1D to 3D, encoded by color). Top Right: Random Geometric Networks (see Methods) with different characteristic spatial scale (encoded by color) and different rewiring probabilities (encoded by size). Clusters here fall above what observed for WS model. Bottom: The functional organisation of real cities, observed thorough the lens of the topological networks derived from the Foursquare flows (see Methods), follow the same trend as in the that of WS networks. In all panels, the dashed line represents the linear regression relating integration and segregation for the WS model, whereas the solid line is \(y=1-x\) and it is shown as a reference