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A scaling investigation of urban form features in Latin America cities.
Paiva, Aureliano S S; Santos, Gervásio F; Castro, Caio P; Rodriguez, Daniel A; Bilal, Usama; Sousa Filho, J Firmino de; Freitas, Anderson; Montes, Felipe; Dronova, Iryna; Barreto, Maurício L; Andrade, Roberto F S.
Afiliação
  • Paiva ASS; Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  • Santos GF; Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  • Castro CP; Economics Faculty, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  • Rodriguez DA; Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  • Bilal U; Institute of Physics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  • Sousa Filho JF; Department of City and Regional Planning and Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
  • Freitas A; Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
  • Montes F; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
  • Dronova I; Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  • Barreto ML; Economics Faculty, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
  • Andrade RFS; Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS), Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
PLoS One ; 18(12): e0293518, 2023.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38109440
ABSTRACT
This paper examines scaling behaviors of urban landscape and street design metrics with respect to city population in Latin America. We used data from the SALURBAL project, which has compiled and harmonized data on health, social, and built environment for 371 Latin American cities above 100,000 inhabitants. These metrics included total urbanized area, effective mesh size, area in km2 and number of streets. We obtained scaling relations by regressing log(metric) on log (city population). The results show an overall sub-linear scaling behavior of most variables, indicating a relatively lower value of each variable in larger cities. We also explored the potential influence of colonization on the current built environment, by analyzing cities colonized by Portuguese (Brazilian cities) or Spaniards (Other cities in Latin America) separately. We found that the scaling behaviors are similar for both sets of cities.
Assuntos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: População Urbana Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: População Urbana Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article