A synergetic perspective on urban scaling, urban regulatory focus and their interrelations.

ABSTRACT: By means of rich data, studies on urban scaling suggested that many urban properties scale with city size in universal ways. A recent study suggested an explanation why the behaviour of citizens in small and large cities differs qualitatively, by deriving the urban agents' behaviour from an extended version of Higgins' regulatory focus theory regarding humans' motivational system. Based on several sets of laboratory experiments, this study demonstrated that urban context of large, fast-paced cities and that of small slow-paced cities encourage two distinctively different motivations and behaviours on the part of their inhabitants. What remains an open question following the above study, however, is the way these behavioural reactions are related to the dynamics of cities as complex,

SUBMITTER: Haken H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731708 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature