Cities as complex systems-Collection overview

Diego Rybski; Marta C González

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0262964

Cities as complex systems-Collection overview

PLoS One. 2022 Feb 25;17(2):e0262964. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262964. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Diego Rybski^{1

2

3}, Marta C González⁴

Affiliations

¹ Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - PIK, Member of Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany.
² Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America.
³ Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States of America.

Abstract

This collection provides a contemporary excerpt of "Cities as complex systems". The contributions have been submitted between April and October 2020. We briefly discuss example papers addressing the themes "urban scaling", "urban mobility", "flows in cities", "spatial analysis", "information technology and cities", and "cities in time". After motivating the intersection of cities and complexity, we provide an introduction and additional thoughts on urban scaling.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cities
Geography
Human Migration*
Humans
Population Density*
Social Networking*
Socioeconomic Factors
Spatial Analysis
Urban Population*

Grants and funding

Diego Rybski thanks the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for financial support under the Feodor Lynen Fellowship. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.