Luís M. A. Bettencourt

Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities

Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 2.7K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Economics, Urban Studies +15

The Origins of Scaling in Cities

Luís M. A. Bettencourt · Science · 2013 · 1.5K citations

Social Sciences, Urban Planning, Urban Studies +12

A unified theory of urban living

Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Geoffrey B. West · Nature · 2010 · 1K citations

Social Sciences, Urban Planning, Urban Studies +14

Urban Scaling and Its Deviations: Revealing the Structure of Wealth, Innovation and Crime across Cities

Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Deborah Strumsky et al. · PLoS ONE · 2010 · 667 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Urban Planning, Urban Studies +12

The power of a good idea: Quantitative modeling of the spread of ideas from epidemiological models

Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Ariel Cintrón-Arias, David Kaiser et al. · Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications · 2005 · 469 citations · Full text

Public Health, Biostatistics, Infectious Disease Control +16