Urban allometry empirically describes how things, for example crime, GPD, emissions, energy use, area, street length, housing prices, etc. change in cities when their size, in terms of population, increases. Urban scaling is a relatively recent area of urban science, investigating how measurable characteristics of cities vary with their sizes.
This book addresses this relatively novel but highly debated topic within urban studies and geography. It presents many results, techniques, methods, and reflections on urban scaling and allometry. The sections are organized into different sub-areas such as socio-economic, infrastructural or environmental outputs, so that there is a broad organization of the findings into recognizable sub-domains. The book is particularly timely as it is becoming increasingly urgent and necessary to understand the pro and cons of different city sizes and therefore to plan policies accordingly. The book is especially interesting from a theoretical perspective because it presents the latest developments and achievements in the field, which will help to highlight potential universal rules across cities and regions.
This book will benefit researchers in urban science, and scholars entering the field from various disciplines, such as geography, sociology, economics, mathematics, physics, or urban and regional planning. It will also find an audience among practitioners and policymakers.
This book addresses a relatively novel but highly debated topic within urban studies and geography, and presents many results, techniques, methods, and reflections on urban scaling and allometry. It is especially timely as it is becoming increasingly urgent to understand the pro and cons of different city sizes and plan policies accordingly.
PART I: Introduction & state of the art
1. Batty M., Introduction: A
Primer on Size, Scale and Shape
2. DAcci L.S., Empirical overview of urban
scaling. Urban allometry origins, critics and city performance evaluations.
3. Pumain D., Scaling laws and urban systems.
4. Menghui Li, Jinshan Wu,
Allometry in scientific fields.
5. Frank Schiller Urban transitions: scaling
complex cities down to human size. PART II: Socio-economic
6. Paulus F.,
Pumain D., Vacchiani-Marcuzzo C. Economic trajectories of cities and scaling
laws.
7. Gomez-Lievano A., Patterson-Lomba O., Hausmann R., How urban
allometry emerges from economic complexity and cultural evolution.
8.
Khiali-Miab A., Grźt-Regamey A., Axhausen K.W., van Strien M.J., Explaining
the socio-economic output of urban regions with a model combining urban
scaling and polycentricity.
9. Alves L.G.A., Mendes R.S., Lenzi E.K., Ribeiro
H.V., Comparing cities of different sizes with scale-adjusted metrics.
10.
Alves L.G.A., Mendes R.S., Lenzi E.K., Ribeiro H.V., Connection between
Zipf's law and urban scaling.
11. Ribeiro H.V., Hanley Q.S., Density scaling
laws and rural to urban transitions.
12. Sarkar S., Exploring Socio-Economic
Inequalities in Cities Through the Lens of Urban Scaling.
13. Sahasranaman
A., Bettencourt L.M.A., Scaling in Indian Cities.
14. Ortman S.G., José Lobo,
Michael E. Smith, Urban Allometries in Archaeology: The Social Reactors
Project
15. van Raan A.F.J., Socio-economic strength and governance:
influence of the number of municipalities in an urban agglomeration
16. van
Raan A.F.J., Regional and sectorial diversity of employment urban scaling
17.
Rocha L.E.C., Fatemeh Zarei, Ruixue Jing, The non-causal scaling of health
indicators and city size
18. Chen YG., A Framework of Multi-Scaling
Allometric Analysis for City Development
19. Siyuan Zhang, Gang Xu, Limin
Jiao, Urban Scaling Law of the COVID-19 Epidemic in the United Kingdom
20.
Elisa Heinrich Mora, Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Christopher P. Kempes. Scaling of
Urban Income Inequality in the USA
21. Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Mathematical model
explains variations in urban scaling exponents
22. Limin Jiao, Weiqian Lei,
Gang Xu, Characteristics and mechanisms of urban scaling in rapidly
urbanizing China PART III: Environment
23. Ribeiro H.V., Rybski D. Urban
carbon dioxide emissions and the role of population, area, and density
24.
Nahid Mohajeri and Agust Gudmundsson. Scaling relations between urban
configuration, travel behavior, and CO2 emissions. PART IV: Infrastructure
25. Tian Lan, Zhilin Li, Hong Zhang, Allometric relations between structural
fractality of road networks and urban quantities
26. Caruso G., Kilgarriff
P., Delloye J., Lemoy R., The scaling of urban land and density profiles:
empirics and theory
27. Li R., Zhang J., Active Population and Spatial
Scaling Laws in Cities
28. Tao Zhou, Scaling Laws in Human Mobility
29.
Yanguang Chen. Geographical Space Based on Urban Allometry and Fractal
Dimension
30. Yanguang Chen. Spatial Allometric Scaling of Cities Based on
Variable Urban Boundaries
31. Gustavo A. Ovando-Montejo, Peter Kedron, Amy E.
Frazier. The allometry of urban configuration: scaling evidence from a Latin
American city system
32. Anna Carbone, Sergio L. da Silva, Giorgio
Kaniadakis. Capturing urban scaling laws via spatio-temporal correlated
Clustering PART V: Conclusion - Regional Economics, Science and Policy
33.
Frank van Oort. Bridging scaling with agglomeration economies.
Luca S. D'Acci is Associate Professor at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Honorary Fellow at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; and affiliated to The Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organisation (EHERO), Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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