Cities as Organisms: Allometric Scaling of Urban Road Networks
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Road Networks; Urban Allometry; Urban Metabolism;All these keywords.
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- R40 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - General
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