Rising inequality threatens the improvement of human well-being. As an important type of
green infrastructure within cities, urban green spaces provide ecosystem services and …

Relatively little research has explored whether there is a systemic urban-rural divide in the
political and socioeconomic attitudes of citizens across Europe. Drawing on individual-level …

Urban scaling is a framework that describes how city-level characteristics scale with
variations in city size. This scoping review mapped the existing evidence on the urban …

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 …

The differences in the definition of urban areas lead to our contrasting or inconsistent
understanding of global urban development and their corresponding socioeconomic and …

Theories of urban scaling have demonstrated remarkable predictive accuracy at aggregate
levels. However, they have overlooked the stark inequalities that exist within cities. Human …

Suburbs, as bridges between urban areas and rural hinterlands, are areas with the most
intense urban–rural conflicts and drastic land use changes in the urbanization process …

Urban scaling laws assume that the performance of a city largely relies on its urban
population size. However, two cities with the same population size may have vastly different …

Analyzing urban scaling relations can help predict the future development of cities and
derive scale adjusted metropolitan indicators (SAMIs) to characterize the city's performance …

Understanding quantitative relationships between urban elements is crucial for a wide range
of applications. The observation at the macroscopic level demonstrates that the aggregated …