Scaling Laws

Commuting network effect on urban wealth scaling
Urban scaling theory explains the increasing returns to scale of urban wealth indicators by the per capita increase of human …
Luiz G. A. Alves, Diego Rybski, Haroldo V. Ribeiro
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Commuting network effect on urban wealth scaling
Research FAPESP: The metrics of urban growth
Groups in Brazil and abroad use new metrics to identify trends in city growth.
Igor Zolnerkevic
Mar 24, 2016 9 min read Media coverage
Research FAPESP: The metrics of urban growth
Scale-adjusted metrics for predicting the evolution of urban indicators and quantifying the performance of cities
More than a half of world population is now living in cities and this number is expected to be two-thirds by 2050. Fostered by the …
Luiz G. A. Alves, Renio S. Mendes, Ervin K. Lenzi, Haroldo V. Ribeiro
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Scale-adjusted metrics for predicting the evolution of urban indicators and quantifying the performance of cities
Len Fisher: Woodquakes and earthquakes
Two upcoming papers in Physical Review Letters shed a light on the way that scientists can use analogies to understand fundamental physical processes.
Len Fisher
Jul 1, 2015 2 min read Media coverage
Len Fisher: Woodquakes and earthquakes
Empirical analysis on the connection between power-law distributions and allometries for urban indicators
We report on the existing connection between power-law distributions and allometries. As it was first reported in [PLoS ONE 7, e40393 …
Luiz G. A. Alves, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Ervin K. Lenzi, Renio S. Mendes
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Empirical analysis on the connection between power-law distributions and allometries for urban indicators
Distance to the scaling law: a useful approach for unveiling relationships between crime and urban metrics
We report on a quantitative analysis of relationships between the number of homicides, population size and other ten urban metrics. By …
Luiz G. A. Alves, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Ervin K. Lenzi, Renio S. Mendes
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Distance to the scaling law: a useful approach for unveiling relationships between crime and urban metrics
Scaling laws in the dynamics of crime growth rate
The increasing number of crimes in areas with large concentrations of people have made cities one of the main sources of violence. …
Luiz G. A. Alves, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Renio S. Mendes
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Scaling laws in the dynamics of crime growth rate