Constructing cities, deconstructing scaling laws

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 102, 2015, Pages

  Arcaute, Elsa ^a   Hatna, Erez ^a,b   Ferguson, Peter ^a   Youn, Hyejin ^c,d   Johansson, Anders ^a,e   Batty, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Santa Fe Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

City boundaries; Power laws; Scaling laws; Urban indicators

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CITY BOUNDARIES; ENGLAND AND WALES; NON-LINEAR CORRELATIONS; POPULATION DENSITIES; POWER-LAWS; SCALING ANALYSIS; UNIVERSAL SCALING LAWS; URBAN INDICATORS;

SCALING LAWS;

ARTICLE; CITY; CITY PLANNING; INFORMATION; LAW; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

CITIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WALES;

EID: 84915749388     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0745     Document Type: Article

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