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Validating Urban Scaling Laws through Mobile Phone Data: A Continental-Scale Analysis of Brazil's Largest Cities
Ricardo de S Alencar, Fabiano L. Ribeiro, Horacio Samaniego +2
\abstract{Urban scaling theories posit that larger cities exhibit disproportionately higher levels of socioeconomic activity and human interactions. Yet, evidence from developing c…
The Science of Urban Metabolism and Sustainability
Mariana Brüning-González, José Ignacio Arroyo, Pablo A. Marquet +1
Understanding the quantitative patterns behind scientific disciplines is fundamental for informed research policy. While many fields have been studied from this perspective, Urban…
Uncovering the socioeconomic structure of spatial and social interactions in cities
Maxime Lenormand, Horacio Samaniego
The relationship between urban mobility, social networks and socioeconomic status is complex and difficult to apprehend, notably due to the lack of data. Here we use mobile phone d…
City limits in the age of smartphones and urban scaling
Boris Sotomayor-Gómez, Horacio Samaniego
Urban planning still lacks appropriate standards to define city boundaries across urban systems. This issue has historically been left to administrative criteria, which can vary si…
Entropy as a measure of attractiveness and socioeconomic complexity in Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area
Maxime Lenormand, Horacio Samaniego, Julio C. Chaves +3
Defining and measuring spatial inequalities across the urban environment remains a complex and elusive task that has been facilitated by the increasing availability of large geoloc…
The time geography of segregation during working hours
Teodoro Dannemann, Boris Sotomayor-Gómez, Horacio Samaniego
Understanding segregation is essential to develop planning tools for building more inclusive cities. Theoretically, segregation at the work place has been described as lower compar…
Dissecting the Spatial Structure of Cities from Human Mobility Patterns to Define Functional Urban Boundaries
Francisco J. Humeres, Horacio Samaniego
Since the industrial revolution, accelerated urban growth has overflown administrative divisions, merged cities into large built extensions, and blurred the boundaries between urba…
The systematic structure and predictability of urban business diversity
Hyejin Youn, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo +3
Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate and health to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic…
Professional diversity and the productivity of cities
Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Horacio Samaniego, HyeJin Youn
The relationships between diversity, productivity and scale determine much of the structure and robustness of complex biological and social systems. While arguments for the link be…