Spatial Analysis of Urban System Network in Damietta Governorate

Document Type : Academic research papers

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1 Girls College of Arts, Science and Education Department of Geography

2 Faculty of Arts, Helwan University

3 Fayoum university

4 Faculty of Women for Arts, Science and Education, Ain Shams University.

Abstract

The urban system network in Damietta Governorate consists of 11 cities, and contains 39.37% of the total population. The population distribution has a wide variation in these cities, were concentrated in two cities Damietta and New-Damietta, which resulted a mismatch of the Zipf’s order-size law, that was confirmed as well by dominant city index, where population weight concentrated in the first city (Damietta), the second (New-Damietta), and third one (Ezbat-Elborg), as a result of this arrangement, there was a gap in size of the upper cities represented in the three previous cities, and between the lower cities represented in the others. Urban domination index showed that Damietta City dominated on others. The cities of Damietta and New-Damietta were the highest cites in urban ratio, but Ras-Elbar City was the least one. Spatial distribution patterns showed the cities average nearest neighborhood 1.43 for the cities located east of Damietta Nile-branch, and 1.49 for others at west, this distribution is regular distribution as a result of location concentration around Damietta Nile-branch, however average nearest neighborhood for all cities was 0.98 which refers to a random distribution. The actual mean analysis showed Farskour City the most central city, and the central mean location located 4.7 km to the north of Farskour City. Standard distance for cities located east of Damietta Nile-branch are more dispersed than the others at west, and the directional distribution was 32.5 and 34 for cities at the east and west respectively, which showed the influence of Damietta Nile-branch orientation.

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Volume 3, Issue 7 - Serial Number 7
Social sciences & Humanities
July 2023
Pages 72-94

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