Urban scaling and its deviations: Revealing the structure of wealth, innovation and crime across cities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Bettencourt, Luís M A ^a,b   Lobo, Jose ^c   Strumsky, Deborah ^d   West, Geoffrey B ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POLICY; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; ALGORITHM; CITY; LEGAL ASPECT; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CITIES; CRIME; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 78649720524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013541     Document Type: Article

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