Evolution of urban scaling: Evidence from Brazil.

ABSTRACT: During the last years, the new science of cities has been established as a fertile quantitative approach to systematically understand the urban phenomena. One of its main pillars is the proposition that urban systems display universal scaling behavior regarding socioeconomic, infrastructural and individual basic services variables. This paper discusses the extension of the universality proposition by testing it against a broad range of urban metrics in a developing country urban system. We present an exploration of the scaling exponents for over 60 variables for the Brazilian urban system. Estimating those exponents is challenging from the technical point of view because the Brazilian municipalities' definition follows local political criteria and does not regard characteristics of the lan

SUBMITTER: Meirelles J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6171854 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature