Comparison is an important competency for gaining and linking knowledge. It can be
learned in geography classes to help students understand complex concepts and develop …

Accurately defining the size of cities is essential for urban studies. As the country with the
world's largest urban population, China has experienced numerous changes in its definition …

The world is continuously transforming to supply growing cities and urbanization processes
are still driving important changes in our current food systems. Future sustainability …

Cet article propose d'analyser les relations entre les villes françaises selon une approche
multi-dimensionnelle et multi-échelles. La plupart du temps, ces relations sont …

Cities' delineation remains a hot topic of debate in a time where comparisons between cities
are becoming increasingly based on different issues that address various scales of …

Models of emergent phenomena are designed to provide an explanation to global-scale
phenomena from local-scale processes. Model validation is commonly done by verifying that …

Cities are complex systems; we expect the dynamics of the urbanization process to follow
the power law, which alludes to the scaling properties of allometry. Urban scaling as a …

Zipf's rank‐size rule, lognormal distribution, and Gibrat's urban growth models are
considered as summarizing fundamental properties of systems of cities. In this article, they …

European cities may be regarded as having formed a system of well-interconnected entities
over many centuries. The peculiarities of their hierarchical functional organization and …

Scaling laws are simple, easily usable and proven relevant models used in geography for
validating various urban theories. These non-linear relationships may reveal physical …