The origins of scaling in cities

Science

Volumn 340, Issue 6139, 2013, Pages 1438-1441

  Bettencourt, Luís M A ^a  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; CITY; CITY PLANNING; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84879264406     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1235823     Document Type: Article

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