Publications

Project papers

• Ortman, Scott G., Andrew H. F. Cabaniss, Jennie O. Sturm and Luis M. A. Bettencourt (2014). The Pre-History of Urban Scaling. PLOS ONE 9(2): e87902.
• Ortman, Scott G., Andrew H. F. Cabaniss, Jennie O. Sturm and Luis M. A. Bettencourt (2015). Settlement Scaling and Increasing Returns in an Ancient Society. Science Advances 1e00066.
• Ortman, Scott G., Kaitlyn E. Davis, Jose Lobo, Michael E. Smith, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, and Aaron Trumbo (2016). Settlement Scaling and Economic Change in the Central Andes. Journal of Archaeological Science 73(2016):94-106.
• Cesaretti, Rudolf, Jose Lobo, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Scott G. Ortman and Michael Smith (2016). Population-Area Relationship in Medieval European Cities. PLOS ONE 11(10): e0162678.
• Hanson, John W., Scott G. Ortman, and Jose Lobo (2017). Urbanisation and the division of labour in the Roman Empire. Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 2017-05-017.
• Ortman, Scott G. and Grant D. Coffey (2017). Settlement Scaling in Middle Range Societies. American Antiquity 82(4). 

Additional reading

• Bettencourt, Luis M. A. (2016) Urban Scaling in Europe. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13(116).
• Bettencourt, Luis M. A. (2014) Impact of Changing Technology on the Evolution of Complex Informational Networks. Proceedings of the IEEE 102(12):1878-1891.
• Schläpfer, Markus, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Sebastian Grauwin, Mathias Raschke, Rob Claxton, Zbigniew Smoreda, Geoffrey B. West and Carlo Ratti (2014) The Scaling of Human Interactions with City Size. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11:20130789.
• Bettencourt, Luis M. A., Horacio Samaniego and HyeJin Youn (2014) Professional Diversity and the Productivity of Cities. Scientific Reports 4:5393.  DOI: 5310.1038/srep05393.
• Bettencourt, Luis M. A. (2013) The Origins of Scaling in Cities. Science 340:1438-1441.
• Fragkias, Michail, José Lobo, Deborah Strumsky, Karen Seto (2013) Does Size Matter? Scaling of CO2 Emissions and U.S. Urban Area.  PLoS ONE 8(6): e64727.
• Lobo José, Bettencourt, Luis M.A, Strumsky, Deborah, West, Geoffrey (2013) Urban Scaling and the Production Function for Cities. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58407.
• Bettencourt, Luis, José Lobo, Deborah Strumsky and Geoffrey West (2010) Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities. PLoS ONE 5(11): e13541.
• Bettencourt, Luis, José Lobo and Geoffrey West (2008) Why are large cities faster? Universal scaling and self-similarity in urban organization and dynamics. European Physical Journal B, 63: 285-293.
• Lobo, José and Deborah Strumsky (2008) Metropolitan patenting, inventor agglomeration and social networks: A tale of two effects. Journal of Urban Economics, 63: 871-884.
• Bettencourt, Luis, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert and Geoffrey West (2007) Growth, innovation, scaling and the pace of life in cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 7301-7306.
• Bettencourt, Luis, José Lobo and Deborah Strumsky (2007) Invention in the city: increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size. Research Policy, 36: 107-120.