Urban scaling, geography, centrality: Relation with local government structures.

ABSTRACT: We investigate socio-economic urban scaling behavior of municipalities in Denmark, the Netherlands, and in particular in Germany. Our interest is twofold. First we investigate whether, and to what extent, scaling occurs in various types of urban areas. The second important topic of research concerns the comparison of specific types of urban areas with regard to the values of the gross urban product. This is a new approach: two scaling systems are compared not only in terms of the scaling exponent, but also in terms of the differences in the gross urban product. We are specifically interested in the role of urban governance in terms of local urban government structures. Germany is our central case because it works as a natural experiment: a large number of urban areas is one-governance, but

SUBMITTER: van Raan AFJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7473566 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature