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20142020
most citedThe systematic structure and predictability of urban business diversity

155 citations

5 papers

physics.soc-ph2020★ 22 cited

City limits in the age of smartphones and urban scaling

Boris Sotomayor-Gómez, Horacio Samaniego

Urban planning still lacks appropriate standards to define city boundaries across urban systems. This issue has historically been left to administrative criteria, which can vary si…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 23 cited

Entropy as a measure of attractiveness and socioeconomic complexity in Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area

Maxime Lenormand, Horacio Samaniego, Julio C. Chaves +3

Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a complex and elusive task that has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large geoloc…

q-bio.PE2018★ 36 cited

Lévy flight movements prevent extinctions and maximize population abundances in fragile Lotka Volterra systems

Teodoro Dannemann, Denis Boyer, Octavio Miramontes

Multiple-scale mobility is ubiquitous in nature and has become instrumental for understanding and modeling animal foraging behavior. However, the impact of individual movements on…

q-bio.PE2016★ 61 cited

Humans: the hyper-dense species

Joseph R. Burger, Vanessa P. Weinberger, Pablo A. Marquet

Humans, like all organisms, are subject to fundamental biophysical laws. Van Valen predicted that, because of zero-sum dynamics, all populations of all species in a given environme…

physics.soc-ph2014★ 155 cited

The systematic structure and predictability of urban business diversity

Hyejin Youn, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo +3

Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate and health to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic…