Urban scaling

Urban Scaling (literally urban scale ) call the scientists phenomenon that in growing cities of prosperity is increasing faster than the population . This phenomenon is explained by the productivity- increasing effects of social networks in urbanized and infrastructurally dense settlement structures .

theory

The Urban-Scaling - Theory of Luís Bettencourt , professor of complex systems at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe ( New Mexico , USA ), according to a city faster than population growth is flourishing, was an analysis of archaeological excavations of historic human settlements to that in Years 1960 to 1975 were confirmed in the Valley of Mexico . The result was published in the scientific journal Science Advances on February 1, 2015.

Luís MA Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert, Geoffrey B. West: Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . Volume 104, number 17, April 2007, pp. 7301-7306, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0610172104 , PMID 17438298 , PMC 1852329 (free full text).
Luís MA Bettencourt: The Origins of Scaling in Cities . In: Science , June 21, 2013 (Vol. 340. no. 6139 pp. 1438–1441)
Luís MA Bettencourt: The kind of problem a city is: New perspectives on the nature of cities from complex systems theory . PDF (SFI Working Paper) in the santafe.edu portal , 2013
Scott G. Ortman, Andrew HF Cabaniss, Jennie O. Sturm, Luís MA Bettencourt: Settlement scaling and increasing returns in an ancient society . In: Science Advances , February 1, 2015 (Vol. 1 no.1 e1400066)