4 papers
Large cities lose their growth advantage as countries urbanize
Andrea Musso, Diego Rybski, Dirk Helbing +1
The share of the world population living in cities with more than one million people rose from 11% in 1975 to 24% in 2025 (our estimates). Will this trend towards greater concentra…
Settlement percolation: global maps of Critical Distances
Martin Schorcht, Martin Behnisch, Larissa T. Beumer +6
A substantial share of the Earth's land surface is managed by humans, with cities representing the most extreme form of anthropogenic land use. There are zillion ways in which sett…
The third dimension of cities - relating building height, urban area, and population
Peiran Zhang, Liang Gao, Fabiano L. Ribeiro +3
For decades, urban development was studied on two-dimensional maps, largely ignoring the third dimension. However, building height is crucial because it dramatically potentiates th…
One-Dimensional Urban Scaling
Fabiano L. Ribeiro, Renan L. Fagundes, Diego Rybski
In this paper, we apply recent findings from urban scaling theory to evaluate how it could be applied to a one-dimensional archetypal city. Our focus is on how the simplicity of a…