Category Archives: Scaling
Gravity v Radiation Models
For many years, almost from the time when Newton first presented his laws of gravitation, speculations and applications of the gravity model to human interactions have been made. In the 19th century, Carey and Ravenstein led the way with Reilly, … Continue reading
Posted in Flows, Interactions, power laws, Scaling
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Network Histories
If you click here you can see out paper on the analysis of London’s street network from the 18th century to the modern day. It was published this past week (12th August) in PLoS One and is open access, the … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Emergence, Hierarchy, Networks, Scaling
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Math Targets Cities’ Essence
Luis Bettencourt’s paper in Science on The Origins of Scaling in Cities and my commentary on it called a Theory of City Size are summarised in a rather nice piece from Rachel Ehernberg in this week’s Science News where she … Continue reading
Posted in allometry, city size, Connectivity, Economies of scale, power laws, Scaling
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