A unified theory of urban living

By Luís M. A. Bettencourt, G. West. Nature, 2010

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Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity (2016, background): “Cities are important because of their dominant (52, 53) and increasing (54, 55) socioeconomic role in all aspects of human life (56–58), both in the real world and online.”
New Insights into Rental Housing Markets across the United States: Web Scraping and Analyzing Craigslist Rental Listings (2016, background): “Planners must understand these tools to help ground—in urban theory and empirical research—the growing urban big data literature being generated in these other fields that have increasingly turned their attention to cities (cf. Bettencourt and West 2010; Bettencourt 2013; Pollock 2016).”
Elementary processes governing the evolution of road networks (2012, background): “, but are important for the dynamical processes occurring on the”
Urban scaling laws (2019, background): “…hand, findings such as crime scaling superlinearly in contrast to urban GDP support the common perception that larger cities are both undesirable and desirable, that large cities are part of the crucible for greater wealth but also the crucible for greater poverty (Bettencourt and West, 2010).”