Smart cities and urban inequality

A Caragliu, CF Del Bo - Regional Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Smart city technologies are criticized because they might exacerbate income inequalities.
Four factors are suggested to explain this phenomenon: the uneven diffusion of information …

Recent advances in urban system science: Models and data

E Arcaute, JJ Ramasco - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Cities are characterized by the presence of a dense population with a high potential for
interactions between individuals of diverse backgrounds. They appear in parallel to the …

Scaling law reveals unbalanced urban development in China

Z Liu, H Liu, W Lang, S Fang, C Chu, F He - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Managing complex cities for sustainability requires coordinated development of different
urban functions. Urban scaling theory provides a quantitative framework to explore the …

Mathematical models to explain the origin of urban scaling laws: a synthetic review

FL Ribeiro, D Rybski - arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.08365, 2021 - arxiv.org
The quest for a theory of cities that could offer a quantitative and systematic approach to
manage cities is at the top priority, given the challenges humanity faces due to the …

Spatial scaling of land use/land cover and ecosystem services across urban hierarchical levels: patterns and relationships

X Sun, Q Ma, G Fang - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Context Land use/land cover (LULC) patterns seriously affect ecosystem services (ESs),
especially in highly developed urban agglomerations. Exploring how LULC and ESs change …

Understanding the mesoscopic scaling patterns within cities

L Dong, Z Huang, J Zhang, Y Liu - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding quantitative relationships between urban elements is crucial for a wide range
of applications. The observation at the macroscopic level demonstrates that the aggregated …

Scaling laws in intra-urban systems and over time at the district level in Shanghai, China

G Xu, Z Xu, Y Gu, W Lei, Y Pan, J Liu, L Jiao - Physica A: Statistical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerous urban indicators scale with urban population in a system of cities. However,
whether the scaling law also exists in an intra-urban system and whether the scaling law …

Understanding the urban scaling of urban land with an internal structure view to characterize China's urbanization

W Lei, L Jiao, G Xu - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
As an infrastructure-related urban indicator, urban land theoretically has a sub-linear scaling
relationship with urban population, which has been evidenced around various urban …

Assessing the attraction of cities on venture capital from a scaling law perspective

R Li, L Lu, T Cui, W Gu, S Ma, G Xu, HE Stanley - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cities are centers for the integration of capital and incubators of inventions. Attracting
venture capital (VC) is of great importance for cities to advance in innovative technology and …

Evolution of urban land and population system coupling micro–dynamics and macro-stability: Trends and paths

W Lei, L Jiao, Z Xu, X Zhu - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Cities are constantly dynamics, but emerge the stability of urban systems as evidenced by
robust urban scaling. Both properties serve as necessary perspectives for understanding the …