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SUBMITTER: Banaszak M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4581867 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20150924 9
This study offers a new perspective on the evolutionary patterns of cities or urban agglomerations. Such developments can range from chaotic to fully ordered. We demonstrate that in a dynamic space of interactive human behaviour cities produce a wealth of gravitational attractors whose size and shape depend on the resistance of space emerging inter alia from transport friction costs. This finding offers original insights into the complex evolution of spatial systems and appears to be consistent ...[more]