City size and the spreading of COVID-19 in Brazil. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 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 areas) and the enormous impact it causes on public health and socio-economic ...
Haroldo V Ribeiro +4 more
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What determines urban resilience against COVID-19: City size or governance capacity? [PDF]
Sustain Cities Soc, 2021 This study analyzed the effects of urban governance and city size on COVID-19 prevention and control measures. Based on real-time data in 276 prefecture-level Chinese cities, we used the ordinary least squares plus robust standard error strategy.
Chu Z, Cheng M, Song M.
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Network structure and city size. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Network structure varies across cities. This variation may yield important knowledge about how the internal structure of the city affects its performance.
David Levinson
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Analysis of city size distribution in Ethiopia: Empirical evidence from 1984 to 2012
Journal of Urban Management, 2019 Urbanisation in Ethiopia is increasing rapidly. This paper uses city-level data to investigate the evolution of Ethiopia’s city size distribution from 1984 to 2012, using descriptive statistics and time-series Gini coefficient calculations.
Amha Ermias +2 more
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The effect of city size on the disability rate of the older adults: empirical evidence from CHARLS data [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundExploring the value orientation of city development from the perspective of people’s well-being is key to clarifying the current debate on city size strategies.MethodsBased on the survey data of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal ...
Huan Liu +3 more
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City size based scaling of the urban internal nodes layout. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The size of a city is not only essential for depicting the scale of the urban system, but also crucial to support the prosperity, order, and high-speed developments.
Wenhan Feng +3 more
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MetaZipf. A dynamic meta-analysis of city size distributions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The results from urban scaling in recent years have held the promise of increased efficiency to the societies who could actively control the distribution of their cities' size.
Clémentine Cottineau
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The impact of city size on income inclusive growth: A human capital perspective and evidence from China. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis paper methodically investigates the influence of inclusive income growth on city size, examining it through the dual lenses of "income" and "distribution." The analysis leverages meticulously collected panel data encompassing 276 Chinese cities at ...
Shao-Ling He, Yuan Zhong, Wei-Wei He
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Violence, city size and geographical isolation in African cities [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsDifferent types of violence are commonly linked with large urban areas, often presumed to scale superlinearly with population size (i.e., to be disproportionately higher in larger cities).
Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Ronaldo Menezes
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Modeling fractal structure of city-size distributions using correlation functions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Zipf's law is one the most conspicuous empirical facts for cities, however, there is no convincing explanation for the scaling relation between rank and size and its scaling exponent.
Yanguang Chen
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