Constructing cities, deconstructing scaling laws
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 153620188
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rsif.2014.0745
- Title of journal
- Journal of the Royal Society Interface
- Article number
- 20140745
- First page
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- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 102
- ISSN
- 1742-5689
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
- Research group(s)
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D - Engineering Systems and Design
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- For city planning, a number of dominant logics prevail based on scaling laws. This paper questions this fundamental assumption and, through an extensive clustering of thousands of realisations of systems of cities, reveals that the scaling laws do not hold true for many urban indicators used to characterise today's metropolitan areas. The work has provided the foundations for a large number of recent studies (40 in 2019 and 25 in 2020 – c.f. Scopus) seeking to establish new indicator-scale relationships for urban areas. The work was funded by ERC grant 249393-ERC-2009-AdG and contributed to the European funded project STEEP (http://www.smartsteep.eu/resources/).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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