Equation 5 · Part 1 · Cities Are Organisms That Refuse to Die: Urban Evolution to 2100
Symbol β
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β is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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β is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
where 1.15 for the socioeconomic quantities and 0.85 for the infrastructural ones. A city twice the size of another does not simply have twice the patents and twice the roads; it tends to have somewhat more than twice the patents and somewhat less than twice the road surface.…
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities ↗
- [2] Constructing Cities, Deconstructing Scaling Laws ↗
- [6] Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns in an Ancient Society ↗
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