Scale-Adjusted Metrics for Predicting the Evolution of Urban Indicators and Quantifying the Performance of Cities

@article{Alves2015ScaleAdjustedMF,
  title={Scale-Adjusted Metrics for Predicting the Evolution of Urban Indicators and Quantifying the Performance of Cities},
  author={Luiz G. A. Alves and Renio S. Mendes and Ervin Kaminski Lenzi and Haroldo V. Ribeiro},
  journal={PLoS ONE},
  year={2015},
  volume={10}
}
More than a half of world population is now living in cities and this number is expected to be two-thirds by 2050. Fostered by the relevancy of a scientific characterization of cities and for the availability of an unprecedented amount of data, academics have recently immersed in this topic and one of the most striking and universal finding was the discovery of robust allometric scaling laws between several urban indicators and the population size. Despite that, most governmental reports and… 
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