Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …

Challenges due to the rapid urbanization of the world—especially in emerging countries—
range from an increasing dependence on energy to air pollution, socio-spatial inequalities …

With over half of the world's population now living in urban areas, the ability to model and
understand the structure and dynamics of cities is becoming increasingly valuable …

The current outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an unprecedented
example of how fast an infectious disease can spread around the globe (especially in urban …

Understanding the causes of crime is a longstanding issue in researcher's agenda. While it
is a hard task to extract causality from data, several linear models have been proposed to …

Continued urban population expansion will be a defining challenge for climate change
mitigation, and global sustainability more generally, over the coming decades. In this …

Understanding the scaling characteristics in China is critical for perceiving the development
process of rapidly urbanising countries. This paper conducts a comprehensive scaling …

Urban theory models cities as spatial equilibria to derive their aggregate properties as
functions of extensive variables, such as population size. However, this assumption seems …

The city has proved to be the most successful form of human agglomeration and provides
wide employment opportunities for its dwellers. As advances in robotics and artificial …

Scaling has been proposed as a powerful tool to analyze the properties of complex systems
and in particular for cities where it describes how various properties change with population …