Radial analysis and scaling of urban land use

Abstract We determine the functional form and scaling law of radial artificial land use profiles in 300 European functional urban areas (FUAs). These profiles, starting from a fully artificial surface in the city center, decrease exponentially, the faster the smaller the city. More precisely, the ch...

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Autores principales:	Rémi Lemoy, Geoffrey Caruso
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f710831c4b394ce39a03487d67cc13c02021-11-14T12:23:14ZRadial analysis and scaling of urban land use10.1038/s41598-021-01477-y2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/f710831c4b394ce39a03487d67cc13c02021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01477-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract We determine the functional form and scaling law of radial artificial land use profiles in 300 European functional urban areas (FUAs). These profiles, starting from a fully artificial surface in the city center, decrease exponentially, the faster the smaller the city. More precisely, the characteristic decrease distance scales like the square root of total population, meaning that the artificial surface of cities is proportional to their population. This also means that the amount of artificial land per capita is independent of city size, and that larger cities are not more or less parsimonious in terms of land use than smaller ones.Rémi LemoyGeoffrey CarusoNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021)
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description	Abstract We determine the functional form and scaling law of radial artificial land use profiles in 300 European functional urban areas (FUAs). These profiles, starting from a fully artificial surface in the city center, decrease exponentially, the faster the smaller the city. More precisely, the characteristic decrease distance scales like the square root of total population, meaning that the artificial surface of cities is proportional to their population. This also means that the amount of artificial land per capita is independent of city size, and that larger cities are not more or less parsimonious in terms of land use than smaller ones.
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title_short	Radial analysis and scaling of urban land use
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Radial analysis and scaling of urban land use

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