Scaling in Human Societies

There is some but limited evidence that large cities pose a greater risk of infectious diseases. As we will see beow, there is an elevated risk of measles when the city exceeds a critical population, and there is a greater risk of sexually transmitted diseases. There is little evidence for... [Read More]

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In our analysis of scaling effects in cities, we review the model of Bettencourt (2013), which holds that socioeconomic quantities such as per-capita gross domestic product of a city increase with the 1/6 power of the city’s population. However, most empirical results we examine in that same article find weaker... [Read More]

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