Urbanization is persistent globally and has increasingly significant spatial and
environmental consequences. It is especially challenging in developing countries due to the …

The similarities between the structures built by social insects and by humans have led to a
convergence of interests between biologists and architects. This new, de facto …

The advent of geolocated information and communication technologies opens the possibility
of exploring how people use space in cities, bringing an important new tool for urban …

Various land-use configurations are known to have wide-ranging effects on the dynamics of
and within other city components including the transportation system. In this work, we …

One of the main problems in the study of human migration is predicting how many people
will migrate from one place to another. An important model used for this problem is the …

Urbanization is a complex spatial phenomenon involving significant compositions and
interactions in land use. Yet, only few studies have quantitatively examined …

Social media are transforming global communication and coordination and provide
unprecedented opportunities for studying socio-technical domains. Here we study global …

A fundamental goal across many research fields is to explain possible mechanisms behind
a phenomenon and infer the correct causal relationships between variables. In this work, we …

Human beings develop the land and transform land use patterns, constructing artificial
structures. Among them, the city is a representative system and its morphology has attracted …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion in the science of networks. Much of this research
has been stimulated by advances in statistical physics and the study of complex systems …