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A scaling investigation of urban form features in Latin America cities

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  • Aureliano S S Paiva
  • Gervásio F Santos
  • Caio P Castro
  • Daniel A Rodriguez
  • Usama Bilal
  • J Firmino de Sousa Filho
  • Anderson Freitas
  • Felipe Montes
  • Iryna Dronova
  • Maurício L Barreto
  • Roberto F S Andrade

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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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  • Aureliano S S Paiva & Gervásio F Santos & Caio P Castro & Daniel A Rodriguez & Usama Bilal & J Firmino de Sousa Filho & Anderson Freitas & Felipe Montes & Iryna Dronova & Maurício L Barreto & Roberto , 2023. "A scaling investigation of urban form features in Latin America cities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(12), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0293518
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293518
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