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Zipf's law and urban scaling: Hypotheses towards a Unified Urban Theory
Fabiano L. Ribeiro, Jose Lobo, Diego Rybski
We propose hypotheses describing the empirical finding of an association between the exponents of urban GDP scaling and Zipf's law for cities. These hypotheses represent various co…
Artificial Increasing Returns to Scale and the Problem of Sampling from Lognormals
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Vladislav Vysotsky, Jose Lobo
We show how increasing returns to scale in urban scaling can artificially emerge, systematically and predictably, without any sorting or positive externalities. We employ a model w…
The ecological and evolutionary energetics of hunter-gatherer residential mobility
Marcus J. Hamilton, Jose Lobo, Eric Rupley +2
Residential mobility is deeply entangled with all aspects of hunter-gatherer life ways, and is therefore an issue of central importance in hunter-gatherer studies. Hunter-gatherers…
Urban Scaling in Europe
Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Jose Lobo
Over the last decades, in disciplines as diverse as economics, geography, and complex systems, a perspective has arisen proposing that many properties of cities are quantitatively…
Invention as a Combinatorial Process: Evidence from U.S. Patents
Hyejin Youn, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Deborah Strumsky +1
Invention has been commonly conceptualized as a search over a space of combinatorial possibilities. Despite the existence of a rich literature, spanning a variety of disciplines, e…
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…