Goals and pathways to achieve sustainable urban development have multiple interlinkages
with human health and wellbeing. However, these interlinkages have not been examined in …

Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

Humanity deals with several challenges in this century such as climate change, land use,
and land use/cover change (LUCC). Determining the patterns, developments, and …

During the past few decades, technologies such as remote sensing, geographical
information systems, and global positioning systems have transformed the way the …

Despite the increasing importance of cities in human societies, our ability to understand
them scientifically and manage them in practice has remained limited. The greatest …

The concept of a so-called urban advantage in health ignores the possibility of
heterogeneity in health outcomes across cities. Using a harmonized dataset from the …

The canopy layer urban heat island (UHI) effect, as manifested by elevated near-surface air
temperatures in urban areas, exposes urban dwellers to additional heat stress in many …

The size of cities is known to play a fundamental role in social and economic life. Yet, its
relation to the structure of the underlying network of human interactions has not been …

Over the last few decades, in disciplines as diverse as economics, geography and complex
systems, a perspective has arisen proposing that many properties of cities are quantitatively …

Scaling is a general analytical framework used by many disciplines—from physics to biology
and the social sciences—to characterize how population-averaged properties of a collective …