Cities are the engines for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which
provide a blueprint for achieving global sustainability. However, knowledge gaps exist in …

Theories of urban scaling have demonstrated remarkable predictive accuracy at aggregate
levels. However, they have overlooked the stark inequalities that exist within cities. Human …

The urban spatial structure represents the distribution of public and private spaces in cities
and how people move within them. Although it usually evolves slowly, it can change quickly …

Urban outputs, from economy to innovation, are known to grow as a power of a city's
population. But, since large cities tend to be central in transportation and communication …

Federated learning involves training statistical models over edge devices such as mobile
phones such that the training data are kept local. Federated Learning (FL) can serve as an …

A large proportion of Africa's infrastructure is yet to be built. Where and how these new
buildings are constructed matters since today's decisions will last for decades. The resulting …

The way urban development will be shaped during the next decade will have a decisive
impact on our ability to limit global temperature increase. The goal of this paper is to develop …

Understanding the scaling characteristics in China is critical for perceiving the development
process of rapidly urbanising countries. This paper conducts a comprehensive scaling …

Urban scaling laws assume that the performance of a city largely relies on its urban
population size. However, two cities with the same population size may have vastly different …

Human mobility has a significant impact on several layers of society, from infrastructural
planning and economics to the spread of diseases and crime. Representing the system as a …