Network structure and city size

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Levinson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CITY PLANNING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; INVESTMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION; CAR; CITY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOBILES; CITIES; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855765524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029721     Document Type: Article

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