Laws of population growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 48, 2008, Pages 18702-18707

  Rozenfeld, Hernán D ^a   Rybski, Diego ^a   Andrade Jr , José S ^b   Batty, Michael ^c   Stanley, H Eugene ^d   Makse, Hernán A ^a,b,d  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Scaling; Statistical analysis; Urban growth

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LAW; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

ALGORITHMS; CITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 57749113631     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807435105     Document Type: Article

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