Urban Scaling and the Production Function for Cities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

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

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; MANUAL LABOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; POPULATION SIZE; PRODUCTIVITY; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; URBAN SCALING;

CITIES; EFFICIENCY; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84875412687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058407     Document Type: Article

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