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Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales
The morphology of urban agglomeration is studied here in the context of information exchange between different spatio-temporal scales. Urban migration to and from cities is characterised as non-random and following non-random pathways. Cities are multidimensional non-linear phenomena, so understandi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26207628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133780 |
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author | Murcio, Roberto Morphet, Robin Gershenson, Carlos Batty, Michael |
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description | The morphology of urban agglomeration is studied here in the context of information exchange between different spatio-temporal scales. Urban migration to and from cities is characterised as non-random and following non-random pathways. Cities are multidimensional non-linear phenomena, so understanding the relationships and connectivity between scales is important in determining how the interplay of local/regional urban policies may affect the distribution of urban settlements. In order to quantify these relationships, we follow an information theoretic approach using the concept of Transfer Entropy. Our analysis is based on a stochastic urban fractal model, which mimics urban growing settlements and migration waves. The results indicate how different policies could affect urban morphology in terms of the information generated across geographical scales. |
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spelling | pubmed-45146282015-07-29 Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales Murcio, Roberto Morphet, Robin Gershenson, Carlos Batty, Michael PLoS One Research Article The morphology of urban agglomeration is studied here in the context of information exchange between different spatio-temporal scales. Urban migration to and from cities is characterised as non-random and following non-random pathways. Cities are multidimensional non-linear phenomena, so understanding the relationships and connectivity between scales is important in determining how the interplay of local/regional urban policies may affect the distribution of urban settlements. In order to quantify these relationships, we follow an information theoretic approach using the concept of Transfer Entropy. Our analysis is based on a stochastic urban fractal model, which mimics urban growing settlements and migration waves. The results indicate how different policies could affect urban morphology in terms of the information generated across geographical scales. Public Library of Science 2015-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4514628/ /pubmed/26207628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133780 Text en © 2015 Murcio et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Murcio, Roberto Morphet, Robin Gershenson, Carlos Batty, Michael Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales |
title | Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales |
title_full | Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales |
title_fullStr | Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales |
title_full_unstemmed | Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales |
title_short | Urban Transfer Entropy across Scales |
title_sort | urban transfer entropy across scales |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4514628/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26207628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133780 |
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