4 papers
Precarious trajectories: How far away is the next refugee drowning?
Ashod Khederlarian, Martin Grant, Monika Halkort +1
In this paper, we explore the analogy between the refugees' drownings in the sea and the earthquakes' occurrences and focus on the aspect that characterizes the statistics of their…
Kinetic roughening of the urban skyline
Sara Najem, Alaa Krayem, Tapio Ala-Nissila +1
\begin{abstract} In this Letter we follow the asymptotic spatial correlation of buildings' heights in the whole of the Netherlands \cite{bag3d}, which comprises $\a…
Buildings as Species: Competition and Scaling Rules in Cities
Tarek Tohme, Martin Grant, Sara Najem
We look at buildings' competition over space in cities through the lens of ecology. Adopting the convex hull of the building's footprint perimeter as a definition of species yields…
Debye-Hückel Theory for Refugees' Migration
Sara Najem
In this Letter we follow the short-ranged Syrian refugees' migration to Lebanon as documented by the UNHCR. We propose a model inspired by the Debye-Hückel theory and show that it…