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Urbanization and Economic Complexity
Riccardo Di Clemente, Emanuele Strano, Michael Batty
Urbanization plays a crucial role in the economic development of every country. The mutual relationship between the urbanization of any country and its economic productive structur…
The agglomeration and dispersion dichotomy of human settlements on Earth
Emanuele Strano, Filippo Simini, Marco De Nadai +2
Human settlements on Earth are scattered in a multitude of shapes, sizes and spatial arrangements. These patterns are often not random but a result of complex geographical, cultura…
Mapping road network communities for guiding disease surveillance and control strategies
Emanuele Strano, Matheus P. Viana, Alessandro Sorichetta +1
Human mobility is increasing in its volume, speed and reach, leading to the movement and introduction of pathogens through infected travelers. An understanding of how areas are con…
Breaking new ground in mapping human settlements from space -The Global Urban Footprint-
Thomas Esch, Wieke Heldens, Andreas Hirne +6
Today 7.2 billion people inhabit the Earth and by 2050 this number will have risen to around nine billion, of which about 70 percent will be living in cities. Hence, it is essentia…
The scaling structure of the global road network
Emanuele Strano, Andrea Giometto, Saray Shai +3
Because of increasing global urbanization and its immediate consequences, including changes in patterns of food demand, circulation and land use, the next century will witness a ma…
Rich and Poor Cities in Europe. Urban Scaling to Mapping European Economic Convergence
Emanuele Strano, Vishal Sood
Recent advances in the urban science make broad use of the notion of scaling. We focus here on the important scaling relationship between the gross metropolitan product (GMP) of a…