The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities

By Michael Batty. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Economics and Econometrics, Transportation

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The City as a Lab (2016, background): “59(1) 5 –13 © The Regents of the University of California 2017 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.”
Complex systems: physics beyond physics (2016, background): “Several physical growth processes that are known to lead to such geometry (percolation or diﬀusion limited aggregation) have been exploited to explain such growth in cities [76,77,79].”
Dynamics of Person-to-Person Interactions from Distributed RFID Sensor Networks (2008, result): “. We stress that the non-linear statistical association highlighted by our results is not a natural feature of most network models. Along with the possibility of considering generative models that reproduce this feature, it is worth considering the obtained datasets – and those that will be collecte”
Elementary processes governing the evolution of road networks (2012, methodology): “The existence of acultural and non-demographic drivers of urbanisation has been investigated using different approaches [17], including classical studies in regional sciences [18], theory of complex systems [19–21], urban theory [22] and remote sensing [23].”
The TimeGeo modeling framework for urban mobility without travel surveys (2016, background): “Role of Land Use on Travel Distance Different spatial patterns of cities imply different geographical advantages to urban functioning (37).”
Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land: Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System (2019, background): “Urbanization results in scarcity of land, accompanied by an increase in land prices, and the subsequent subdivision of land; a process that favors the growth of smaller parcels of private land ownership, where each is used by the purchaser to maximize profit (Barzel, 1997; Lee and Webster, 2006), an”
Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress. (2011, background): “Cities are no longer compact, isodiametric aggregations, but rather sprawl in fractal or web-like configurations (Makse et al., 1995; Batty, 2008).”
The economic effects of density: A synthesis (2019, neutral): “This literature is not part of this review, because unlike with the bulk of the evidence base, the analysis is purely descriptive and not concerned with density (Bettencourt & Lobo 2016; Batty 2008; Bettencourt 2013).”
Urban agriculture in the developing world: a review (2013, background): “In 2020, it is foreseen that there will be at least 27 megalopolis, out of which 13 in Asia, 6 in Latin America, 5 between Europe and North America, and 3 in Africa (Batty 2008).”