Journal article
A scaling investigation of urban form features in Latin America cities
PloS one, v 18(12), e0293518
18 Dec 2023
PMID: 38109440
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Abstract
This paper examines scaling behaviors of urban landscape and street design metrics with respect to city population in Latin America. We used data from the SALURBAL project, which has compiled and harmonized data on health, social, and built environment for 371 Latin American cities above 100,000 inhabitants. These metrics included total urbanized area, effective mesh size, area in km2 and number of streets. We obtained scaling relations by regressing log(metric) on log (city population). The results show an overall sub-linear scaling behavior of most variables, indicating a relatively lower value of each variable in larger cities. We also explored the potential influence of colonization on the current built environment, by analyzing cities colonized by Portuguese (Brazilian cities) or Spaniards (Other cities in Latin America) separately. We found that the scaling behaviors are similar for both sets of cities.
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- Title
- A scaling investigation of urban form features in Latin America cities
- Creators
- Aureliano S S Paiva - Fundação Oswaldo CruzGervásio F Santos - Universidade Federal da BahiaCaio P Castro - Universidade Federal da BahiaDaniel A Rodriguez - University of California, BerkeleyUsama Bilal - Drexel UniversityJ Firmino de Sousa Filho - Universidade Federal da BahiaAnderson Freitas - Knowledge Integration (United Kingdom)Felipe Montes - Universidad de Los AndesIryna Dronova - University of California, BerkeleyMaurício L Barreto - Knowledge Integration (United Kingdom)Roberto F S Andrade - Universidade Federal da Bahia
- Publication Details
- PloS one, v 18(12), e0293518
- Publisher
- PLOS
- Grant note
- DP5 OD026429 / NIH HHS Wellcome Trust
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative; Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001130043100014
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85180004108
- Other Identifier
- 991021811736704721
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