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Scaling: Lost in the smog
Rémi Louf, Marc Barthelemy
In this commentary we discuss the validity of scaling laws and their relevance for understanding urban systems and helping policy makers. We show how the recent controversy about t…
A typology of street patterns
Rémi Louf, Marc Barthelemy
We propose a quantitative method to classify cities according to their street pattern. We use the conditional probability distribution of shape factor of blocks with a given area,…
Scaling in transportation networks
Rémi Louf, Camille Roth, Marc Barthelemy
Subway systems span most large cities, and railway networks most countries in the world. These networks are fundamental in the development of countries and their cities, and it is…
How congestion shapes cities: from mobility patterns to scaling
Rémi Louf, Marc Barthelemy
The recent availability of data for cities has allowed scientists to exhibit scalings which present themselves in the form of a power-law dependence with population of various soci…