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Urban science

the regular power-law relationship by which urban outputs such as wages, innovation and infrastructure change with city population size.

In urban science, urban scaling refers to the regular power-law relationship by which urban outputs such as wages, innovation and infrastructure change with city population size. This meaning comes from Bettencourt (2007) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Bettencourt, L. M. A., Lobo, J., Helbing, D., Kühnert, C., & West, G. B. (2007). Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(17), 7301-7306. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0610172104

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