Urban Scaling

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