The effects of this are perhaps not fully understood, particularly where the rural area comprises a network of towns rather than a single centre.
Adleman's experiment involved finding a route through a network of "towns" (labeled "1" to "7") connected by one-way "roads".
To serve Minnesota's growing agricultural, forestry, and mining activities in the 19th century, a network of towns emerged across the landscape.
Nasiriya is one of a network of towns and cities across the Shiite heartland of southern Iraq that have been roiled by the spreading insurrection Mr. Sadr and his militia have stirred since the fighting began in Najaf.
I went on a fat bike tour with White Pine earlier this winter, on a network of town-run groomed Nordic ski skating trails, and it was awesome fun - as well as a great winter workout.
The Roman Republic was not a nation-state in the modern sense, but a network of towns left to rule themselves (though with varying degrees of independence from the Roman Senate) and provinces administered by military commanders.
Overall, the struggle was between the Holy Roman Empire, which was Roman Catholic and Habsburg, and a network of Protestant towns and principalities that relied on the chief anti-Catholic powers of Sweden and the United Netherlands, which had at last thrown off the yoke of Spain after a struggle lasting 80 years.
Developing countries should pursue a managed urbanization ― one that spreads economic activity across multiple cities and a network of secondary towns (up to 1 million people) ― that does not corrode the countryside and that keeps rural areas economically viable.
A network of abandoned towns and villages that once housed hundreds of thousands of people, the exclusion zone of the largest nuclear accident since Chernobyl is eerie and frightening.
However, Alfred eventually won a sequence of victories against the Danes, exploiting the fear of the Viking threat to raise large numbers of men and using a network of defended towns called burhs to defend his territory and mobilise royal resources.
