"Scaling Laws and Applications in Urban Phenomena"
urban scaling, cities, scaling, complex systems
Using scaling laws applied to urban systems, it is possible to relate the population size of cities to socioeconomic, behavioral, and physical variables. They enable more optimized urban planning based on a better understanding of the behavior of the urban economy. Improving our understanding of the origin of these power law relationships will help us use them more efficiently in practical applications and research their properties more deeply. In this work, basic exponent values were found for spatially distributed variables based on fundamental fractal geometric relationships in cities, demonstrating, for example, that street networks and populations exhibit fractal patterns, which indicate the existence of nonlinear dynamics governing the behavior of these patterns.