Mapping?

What type of networks are you looking at and what are you trying to analyze? I have a bunch of friends who have used SNA software that visualizes networks but you need the data to put in. Depending on what you are doing, you may just hand-chart nodes and ties in a sociogram, but it all depends on your data and methodology, which should be driven by your purpose.

Dear, Chad Anderson

Thanks for your answer, what is your suggestion about the social networks that can be useful in urban studies?

Dear Amirhosein Shabani,

I think this is entirely driven by your research agenda and your preferred approach. I took a brief look at your research and could see a number of possibilities. One approach is to look at the issue bottom-up and construct your own view of the networks. I can only speculate as I do not read Farsi, but I could imagine going and investigating the groups of people using therapeutic spaces, or connections to different architectural types in an area, or culture-led regeneration. There may be interesting networks of people and businesses and groups involved in areas where you may shed light on your interests by observing and documenting those networks.

If you have no definite idea, the other approach would be top-down based on available data where you find data sources and see what social networks they reveal or how they may be used to illuminate your research questions.

Since I do not know much about the urban scene in Iran or in your part in particular or even about what sort of work you like to do, it is difficult to be more specific. In Korea, I would go to the area and start taking photos and talking to people. One of my recent co-authors instead downloaded a lot of online social media data. I have reviewed a bunch of papers based on traffic and other infrastructure data. Be creative, use your knowledge of your environs, and play to your strengths by doing what you do best.

Any methodology can be ideated based on the research question or general problem. At the very least I recommend sharing why are social networks interesting for your work and on what scale. In general, putting up questions to the community are more helpful not as a first step, but after you laid some groundwork and need direction/validation. With search terms "social network analysis" AND ("urban" AND ("studies" OR "planning" OR "design" or "management")) in scientific database you will find plenty of resources to kick off. A second could be "agent*based model*" AND "social network" AND "urban". And a third: "ethnographic" field research AND "social network AND "urban". I recommend these to get a balanced view of qualitative, empirical and analytic tools. Whatever your research question will be, it is highly likely that you will chain these two in some way. And if I could give just two general advices from personal experience: (1) network analysis is always an abstraction, and will give you a specialized, tunnel-visioned view on your subject, so never interpret them in isolation, make multiple abstractions, add observations, tacit knowledge, contextual information and (2) be very creative with how you abstract reality into a network model - graph theory is very flexible and a rookie mistake is to simply say people are nodes and formal connections or acquaintances or transactions are edges, which does disservice to richness of this world.

The poor and the rich always come up with segregation. We could start with categorize the area, and find out what happened with the social networking. Are they actually need to support each other?

REDES SOCIALES, SERA MAS LIMITADO TU TRABAJO, PERO YO AGREGARIA TEMAS COMO EL PARENTESCO,EN MEXIC EL COMPADRAZGO Y EL AMIGUISMO PARA ENTENDER A LAS REDES SOCIALES, SINCRAMENT, GERMAN VEGA ENDER LASTEN SIN