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Fig. 10.6 Inter corporate competition through urban areas - urban network formed by Nestlé SA,
Unilever, Kraft Foods, PepsiCo and Danone (Source: ORBIS, 2005 - Gautier B. & Rozenblat C.
@ SPANGEO, 2007)
To observe this phenomenon, we aggregated all the networks of each economic
sector (see Figs. 10.6 and 10.7 ). Combining the networks of several firms, we finally
obtained a single network that represents inter-urban relationships. This kind of
graph allows us to visualize not only relations between cities in one particular branch
of an industry but also relations within these cities. In this way, every city of the