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A Socio-geographic Perspective on Human Activities in Social Media
Ding Ma, Mats Sandberg, Bin Jiang
Location-based social media make it possible to understand social and geographic aspects of human activities. However, previous studies have mostly examined these two aspects separ…
Hierarchical Scaling in Systems of Natural Cities
Yanguang Chen, Bin Jiang
Hierarchies can be modeled by a set of exponential functions, from which we can derive a set of power laws indicative of scaling. The solution to a scaling relation equation is alw…
A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole
Bin Jiang
A city is a whole, as are all cities in a country. Within a whole, individual cities possess different degrees of wholeness, defined by Christopher Alexander as a life-giving order…
Spatial Distribution of City Tweets and Their Densities
Bin Jiang, Ding Ma, Junjun Yin +1
Social media outlets such as Twitter constitute valuable data sources for understanding human activities in the virtual world from a geographic perspective. This paper examines spa…
A Complex-Network Perspective on Alexander's Wholeness
Bin Jiang
The wholeness, conceived and developed by Christopher Alexander, is what exists to some degree or other in space and matter, and can be described by precise mathematical language.…