Urban scaling and the production function for cities.
The factors that account for the differences in the economic productivity of urban areas have remained difficult to measure and identify unambiguously. Here we show that a microscopic derivation of urban scaling relations for economic quantities vs. population, obtained from the consideration of soc...
Main Authors: | José Lobo, Luís M A Bettencourt, Deborah Strumsky, Geoffrey B West |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3609801?pdf=render |
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