Urban Scaling

Luca S. D'Acci is Associate Professor at the Department of Planning, Regional and Urban Studies, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy.

This book addresses a relatively novel but highly debated topic within urban studies and geography, and presents many results, techniques, methods, and reflections on urban scaling and allometry. It is especially timely as it is becoming increasingly urgent to understand the pro and cons of different city sizes and plan policies accordingly.

PART I: Introduction & state of the art 1. Batty M., Introduction: A Primer on Size, Scale and Shape 2. D'Acci L.S., Empirical overview of urban scaling. Urban allometry origins, critics and city performance evaluations. 3. Pumain D., Scaling laws and urban systems. 4. Menghui Li, Jinshan Wu, Allometry in scientific fields. 5. Frank Schiller Urban transitions: scaling complex cities down to human size. PART II: Socio-economic 6. Paulus F., Pumain D., Vacchiani-Marcuzzo C. Economic trajectories of cities and scaling laws. 7. Gomez-Lievano A., Patterson-Lomba O., Hausmann R., How urban allometry emerges from economic complexity and cultural evolution. 8. Khiali-Miab A., Grêt-Regamey A., Axhausen K.W., van Strien M.J., Explaining the socio-economic output of urban regions with a model combining urban scaling and polycentricity. 9. Alves L.G.A., Mendes R.S., Lenzi E.K., Ribeiro H.V., Comparing cities of different sizes with scale-adjusted metrics. 10. Alves L.G.A., Mendes R.S., Lenzi E.K., Ribeiro H.V., Connection between Zipf's law and urban scaling. 11. Ribeiro H.V., Hanley Q.S., Density scaling laws and rural to urban transitions. 12. Sarkar S., Exploring Socio-Economic Inequalities in Cities Through the Lens of Urban Scaling. 13. Sahasranaman A., Bettencourt L.M.A., Scaling in Indian Cities. 14. Ortman S.G., José Lobo, Michael E. Smith, Urban Allometries in Archaeology: The Social Reactors Project 15. van Raan A.F.J., Socio-economic strength and governance: influence of the number of municipalities in an urban agglomeration 16. van Raan A.F.J., Regional and sectorial diversity of employment urban scaling 17. Rocha L.E.C., Fatemeh Zarei, Ruixue Jing, The non-causal scaling of health indicators and city size 18. Chen YG., A Framework of Multi-Scaling Allometric Analysis for City Development 19. Siyuan Zhang, Gang Xu, Limin Jiao, Urban Scaling Law of the COVID-19 Epidemic in the United Kingdom 20. Elisa Heinrich Mora, Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Christopher P. Kempes. Scaling of Urban Income Inequality in the USA 21. Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Mathematical model explains variations in urban scaling exponents 22. Limin Jiao, Weiqian Lei, Gang Xu, Characteristics and mechanisms of urban scaling in rapidly urbanizing China PART III: Environment 23. Ribeiro H.V., Rybski D. Urban carbon dioxide emissions and the role of population, area, and density 24. Nahid Mohajeri and Agust Gudmundsson. Scaling relations between urban configuration, travel behavior, and CO2 emissions. PART IV: Infrastructure 25. Tian Lan, Zhilin Li, Hong Zhang, Allometric relations between structural fractality of road networks and urban quantities 26. Caruso G., Kilgarriff P., Delloye J., Lemoy R., The scaling of urban land and density profiles: empirics and theory 27. Li R., Zhang J., Active Population and Spatial Scaling Laws in Cities 28. Tao Zhou, Scaling Laws in Human Mobility 29. Yanguang Chen. Geographical Space Based on Urban Allometry and Fractal Dimension 30. Yanguang Chen. Spatial Allometric Scaling of Cities Based on Variable Urban Boundaries 31. Gustavo A. Ovando-Montejo, Peter Kedron, Amy E. Frazier. The allometry of urban configuration: scaling evidence from a Latin American city system 32. Anna Carbone, Sergio L. da Silva, Giorgio Kaniadakis. Capturing urban scaling laws via spatio-temporal correlated Clustering PART V: Conclusion - Regional Economics, Science and Policy 33. Frank van Oort. Bridging scaling with agglomeration economies.