My Publications
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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,...
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...
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...
Detecting cities with high intermediacy in the African urban network
We construct Africa’s urban network obtained from OpenStreetMap road data. City centrality is measured using two indices: by the degree...Older publications
Nov / 2022
Boosting African cities’ resilience to climate change
Nov / 2022
Constructing a simplified interurban road network based on crowdsourced geodata
Apr / 2022
Scaling beyond cities
Apr / 2022
Y tú, ¿denunciarías un delito en la CDMX?
Apr / 2022
Reconciling big data and thick data to advance the new urban science and smart city governance
Apr / 2022
Mobility between Colombian cities is predominantly repeat and return migration
