We review some urban scaling principles and explore ways to analyse variations within the same city.
Commentary: A road map for future data-driven urban planning and environmental health research
Better understanding through harmonising and analysing data in large numbers of cities is essential to identifying the most effective means of disease prevention and understanding context dependencies important for policy.
Exploring the nexus of urban form, transport, environment and health in large-scale urban studies: A state-of-the-art scoping review
Compact city designs were generally advantageous for reducing harmful environmental exposure and promoting health.
Quantifying the stability of refugee populations: a case study in Austria
This study focuses on refugee stability and integration. Stability is assessed through residential movements. Utilising comprehensive administrative data, we examine residence movements as a proxy for stability. Our findings reveal a stark contrast in the stability of refugees compared to other migrant groups.
The diaspora model for human migration
The new diaspora model of migration incorporates intensity and assortativity and considers only the existing diaspora sizes in the destination to forecast flows.
The ABC of mobility
We model the use of various modes of transport in a city by aggregating Active mobility (A), Public Transport (B) and Cars (C), expressing the modal share of a city by its ABC.
Reducing cartel recruitment is the only way to lower violence in Mexico
By 2022, Mexican cartels counted 160,000 to 185,000 units, becoming one of the country’s top employers.
Arguments for building The Circle and not The Line in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia plans to construct a new city, home to 9 million people. The most relevant aspect is its form, a line with a surprising length of 170 km. We analyse whether this is the best plan for a new city and some inconveniences of the prolonged urban form.
Scaling of the morphology of African cities
Based on the location and surface of nearly 200 million buildings on the continent, we estimate the interbuilding distance of almost six thousand cities. Buildings’ footprint data enable the construction of urban form indicators to compare African cities’ elongation, sprawl, …
A Ubiquitous Collective Tragedy in Transport
We explore the individual decision-making processes of commuters using various forms of transport within a city, forming a modal share which is then built into a dynamical model using travel time as the key variable. From a randomised start in …