Scaling laws and indications of self-organized criticality in urban systems

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-98

  Chen, Yanguang ^a   Zhou, Yixing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; EARTHQUAKES; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCALING LAWS;

EARTHQUAKES LENDS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; POPULATION SIZE LAW; SELF-ORGANIZED CRITICALITY;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 34548534433     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2006.05.018     Document Type: Article

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