Publications
Published project papers
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- Hanson, John W. and Scott G. Ortman (2017). A systematic method for estimating the populations of Greek and Roman settlements. Journal of Roman Archaeology 30:301-324.
- Ossa, Alanna, Michael E. Smith, and José Lobo (2017). The Size of Plazas in Mesoamerican Cities: A Quantitative Analysis and Social Interpretation. Latin American Antiquity 28(4): 457-475.
- Smith, Michael E. (2019). Energized Crowding and the Generative Role of Settlement Aggregation and Urbanization. In Coming Together: Comparative Approaches to Population Aggregation and Early Urbanization, edited by Attila Gyucha, pp. 37-58. State University of New York Press, Albany.
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- Lobo, José, LuÃs M. A. Bettencourt, Michael E. Smith and Scott G. Ortman (2020). Settlement Scaling Theory: Bridging the Study of Ancient and Contemporary Urban Systems. Urban Studies.
- Rudolf Cesaretti, José Lobo, Luis M. A. Bettencourt & Michael E. Smith (2020): Increasing returns to scale in the towns of early Tudor England, Historical Methods: A Journal of
Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. - Hanson, John W. and Scott G. Ortman (2020). Reassessing the capacities of entertainment structures in the Roman Empire. American Journal of Archaeology 124(3):417-440.
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- Smith, Michael E., Scott G. Ortman, José Lobo, Claire Ebert, Amy E. Thompson, Keith M Prufer, Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo, and Robert M. Rosenswig (2020). The Low-Density Urban Systems of the Classic Period Maya and Izapa: Insights from Settlement Scaling Theory. Latin American Antiquity doi:10.1017/laq.2020.80.
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Preprints of papers in progress areÌýavailable .Ìý
Related papers (including some key critical discussions)
- Strumsky, Deborah, Jose Lobo and Charlotta Mellander (2019) As different as night and day: Scaling analysis of Swedish urban areas and regional labor markets. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48(2):231-247.
- Bettencourt, LMA (2019).ÌýTowards a statistical mechanics of cities. Comptes Rendus Physique 20(4):308-318.Ìý
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- Bettencourt, Luis M. A. (2014)ÌýImpact 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)ÌýThe 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)ÌýProfessional Diversity and the Productivity of Cities. Scientific Reports 4:5393. ÌýDOI: 5310.1038/srep05393.
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- 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.
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