2 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
Nested economies of scale in global city mass
Kangning Huang, Mingzhen Lu
A longstanding puzzle in urban science is whether there's an intrinsic match between human populations and the mass of their built environments. Previous findings have revealed var…
physics.soc-ph2025
The impact of strong activity disruption on building energetics
Yu-Hsuan Hsu, Sara Beery, Christopher P. Kempes +2
Evidence shows that biological organisms tend to be more energetically efficient per unit size. These scaling patterns observed in biological organisms have also been observed in t…