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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 10: Transport, Regional and Urban Dynamics

SOE 10.8: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 24. März 2021, 14:40–15:00, SOEa

Indication of correlations between urban scaling and Zipf's exponent — Haroldo V. Ribeiro¹, Milena Oehlers², Ana I. Moreno-Monroy³, Jürgen P. Kropp^2,4, and •Diego Rybski^2,5 — ¹Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Estadual de Maringa, PR 87020-900, Brazil — ²Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - PIK, Member of Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 601203, 14412 Potsdam, Germany — ³OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, Honorary Associate, Geography and Planning Department, University of Liverpool, 2 rue Andre-Pascal, 75016 Paris, France — ⁴Institute for Environmental Science and Geography, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany — ⁵Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Zipf's law and urban scaling are two fundamental paradigms researched in urban science. They have mostly been investigated independently and are perceived as disassociated matters. Here we present a large scale investigation about the connection between these two laws using population and GDP data from 96 countries. We empirically demonstrate that both laws are tied to each other and derive an expression relating the exponents, capturing the main tendency of the empirical relation. Simulations yield very similar results to the real data after accounting for fluctuations. Our research puts forward the idea that urban scaling of GDP does not solely emerge from intra-city processes.