How are economic activities linked to geographic locations? To answer this question, we use a data-driven approach that builds on the information about location, ownership and economic activities of the world's 3,000 largest firms and their almost one million subsidiaries. From this information we generate a bipartite …
Model shows cities can grow superexponentially but also stabilize due to economic factors.
problem Understanding and controlling population growth in cities.
method Generalized population dynamics model and algorithm for regime shifts.
result Cities can stabilize economically and grow again through algorithmic intervention.
Study on supply chain networks using wire transfers in Brazil.
problem Understanding economic integration and specialization in Brazilian cities.
method Constructed a directed and weighted network of wire transfers between cities, analyzed centrality measures, and used econometric analysis.
result Disassortative mixing pattern in trade network, stronger after recession, and impact of court efficiency on economic transactions.
Understanding cities is central to addressing major global challenges from climate and health to economic resilience. Although increasingly perceived as fundamental socio-economic units, the detailed fabric of urban economic activities is only now accessible to comprehensive analyses with the availability of large data…
Model estimates urban capabilities driving economic performance.
problem Estimating the drivers of urban economic complexity and their connection to performance.
method Derived a model to infer capabilities from employment data, statistically superior to alternatives.
result The derived model explains known urban scaling and economic complexity results and correlates with economic performance.
Urban economies follow universal scaling laws over time.
problem Identify a common economic pathway for cities.
method Mathematical framework integrating cross-sectional data into longitudinal evolution.
result Urban economies recapitulate observed cross-sectional regularity over time.
New approach uses satellite imagery to estimate economic growth.
problem Lack of reliable economic data in developing countries.
method Dynamic network and representation learning.
result Accurately predicts spatial gross economic expenditures.
The latest global financial tsunami and its follow-up global economic recession has uncovered the crucial impact of housing markets on financial and economic systems. The Chinese stock market experienced a markedly fall during the global financial tsunami and China's economy has also slowed down by about 2\%-3\% when m…
I propose and briefly define the concept of Urban Isobenefit Lines by using functions as easy as efficient, whose results can offer a rich tool to use into spatial equilibrium analysis involving cities. They are line joining urban points with equal level of positional advantage from city amenities. The results which on…
Intensive development of urban systems creates a number of challenges for urban planners and policy makers in order to maintain sustainable growth. Running efficient urban policies requires meaningful urban metrics, which could quantify important urban characteristics including various aspects of an actual human behavi…
Aiming at quantifying and evaluating the regional commercial environment along with the level of economic development among cities in mainland China, the concept of China City Commercial Environment Credit Index(CEI) was first introduced and established in 2010. In this manuscript, a historical review and detailed intr…
Developing a scientific understanding of cities in a fast urbanizing world is essential for planning sustainable urban systems. Recently, it was shown that income and wealth creation follow increasing returns, scaling superlinearly with city size. We study scaling of per capita incomes for separate census defined incom…
Dataset of Italian municipalities' income taxes from 2007-2011.
problem Understanding the economic structure of Italian municipalities.
method Annual aggregated income taxes of all Italian municipalities, clustered by regions and provinces.
result Data useful for economic comparisons and understanding municipal structures.
Recent trends in Agent Computational Economics research, envelop a government agent in the model of the economy, whose decisions are based on learning algorithms. In this paper we try to evaluate the performance of simulated annealing in this context, by considering a model proposed earlier in the literature, which has…
Study shows 'Belt and Road' node cities boost digital finance in China.
problem Impact of 'Belt and Road' node cities on digital inclusive finance.
method Descriptive analysis, literature review, theoretical model, differential differential method.
result Establishment of 'Belt and Road' node cities promotes digital inclusive finance in China, with Internet development as a mediating variable.
It is demonstrated that the US economy has on the long-term in reality been governed by the Keynesian approach to economics independent of the current official economical policy. This is done by calculating the two-point correlation function between the fluctuations of the DJIA and the US public debt. We find that the …
Model infers functions for attributes using multi-aggregate datasets with knowledge transfer.
problem Modeling aggregate data with varying granularities and spatial supports.
method Multi-output Gaussian process (MoGP) with linear mixing of independent latent GPs, aggregation process, and prior distribution of mixing weights.
result Proposed model outperforms in refining coarse-grained aggregate data.
New approach predicts commuters' flow with 90.4% accuracy.
problem Limited ability to predict and reconstruct commuters' networks.
method Machine learning and 22 urban indicators.
result Predictions with 90.4% accuracy and 77.6% variance explained.
Fragmented exchanges arise due to speed advantages in high-activity regions.
problem Fragmentation of distributed securities exchanges due to speed advantages in high-activity regions.
method Economic model and Monte Carlo simulations of a decentralized exchange with two miner clusters.
result Speed advantage increases with infrastructure asymmetry between regions.
The paper analyzes potential housing bubbles in China using statistical tests.
problem Detecting potential housing bubbles in China's real estate market.
method Applied Engle-Granger cointegration test and Log-Periodic-Power-Law-Singularity (LPPLS) model.
result Evidence of unsustainable speculative behaviors in Chinese real estate markets.
Barcelona evaluates major events for economic and social impact.
problem Evaluating the economic and social impact of major events in Barcelona.
method Analyzes the economic and social dimensions of Barcelona's major events from 1888 to 2004.
result Develops a rational argument for communicating the economic benefits of major events.
New approach predicts crime and terrorism events with high accuracy and transparency.
problem Predicting crime and terrorism events with high accuracy and interpretability.
method Granger Network inference for local transport rules learning.
result Achieved AUC of ~90% for crime predictions and ~80% for terrorism predictions.
Algorithm optimizes lockdown policies balancing health and economy.
problem Balancing health and economic impacts of lockdowns during pandemics.
method Reinforcement learning to automatically compute lockdown policies.
result Algorithm learns optimal lockdown policies from disease and population data.
City2City translates place representations across cities using language translation techniques.
problem Lack of inter-city perspective in place representations from mobility data.
method Applied unsupervised machine language translation methods to translate place representations across different cities.
result Successfully translated place representations from one city to another, validated using landuse data.
Study shows income inequality increases with city size, affecting only the wealthiest deciles.
problem Understanding income inequality in urban areas.
method Urban scaling analysis of total income scaling in population percentiles.
result Income in the poorest decile does not increase with city size, while the wealthiest deciles show superlinear scaling.
Study characterizes PM2.5 dynamics in Bujumbura using low-cost sensors.
problem Characterize spatio-temporal variability of PM2.5 in Bujumbura.
method Used low-cost sensors to collect data from August 2022 to August 2023. Analyzed hourly, daily, and seasonal PM2.5 concentrations using RNN with LSTM.
result Hourly and annual PM2.5 concentrations in Bujumbura exceed WHO standards.
Understanding urban growth is one with understanding how society evolves to satisfy the needs of its individuals in sharing a common space and adapting to the territory. We propose here a quantitative analysis of the historical development of a large urban area by investigating the spatial distribution and the age of c…
Meta-learning approach for spatial-temporal prediction across cities.
problem Spatial-temporal prediction for cities with limited data.
method Meta-learning paradigm with spatial-temporal network and pattern-based memory.
result Meta-learning model improves prediction accuracy over multiple tasks.
Research uses Twitter data to analyze public perception of city logistics.
problem Understanding public views on city logistics from multiple stakeholders.
method Collecting Twitter content, applying unsupervised learning and NLP.
result Built an Interest Map and determined sentiment of city logistics entries.
Macroeconomic theories of growth and wealth distribution have an outsized influence on national and international social and economic policies. Yet, due to a relative lack of reliable, system wide data, many such theories remain, at best, unvalidated and, at worst, misleading. In this paper, we introduce a novel econom…
Study examines money flow network among firms' accounts in a Japanese region.
problem Understanding the relationship between money flow and economic activities of firms.
method Employed exhaustive bank transfer data, network statistics, Hodge decomposition, and non-negative matrix factorization.
result Identified a 'walnut' structure with core and upstream/downstream components, correlated with economic activities.
Study uncovers uncertainty in traffic prediction models across cities.
problem Lack of interpretability in deep learning models for traffic prediction.
method Investigated uncertainty quantification methods for image-based traffic prediction.
result Meaningful uncertainty estimates can be recovered for traffic prediction.
Speculative bubbles have been occurring periodically in local or global real estate markets and are considered a potential cause of economic crises. In this context, the detection of explosive behaviors in the financial market and the implementation of early warning diagnosis tests are of critical importance. The recen…
The relationship between minimal algebraic Kac-Moody groups and twin buildings is well known as is the relationship between formal completions in one direction and affine buildings. Nevertheless, as the completion of a Kac-Moody group in one direction destroys the opposite BN-pair, there exists no longer a twin buildin…
This study uses computational methods to analyze Italo Calvino's 'Invisible Cities', improving on previous literary analysis.
problem Improving literary analysis through computational methods for a specific novel.
method Leveraging pretrained contextualized representations and unsupervised clustering methods to analyze the thematic groups of cities in Calvino's novel.
result The computational approach provides insights into the trustworthiness of Calvino's thematic categorization of cities.
Graph embeddings from commute networks identify socioeconomic disparities in urban areas.
problem Urban delineation and socioeconomic group identification.
method Graph Neural Network (GNN) for modeling commute networks and deriving node embeddings.
result GNNs effectively capture socioeconomic disparities between urban communities.
ALCNN predicts bike demand patterns in new cities using multi-source geographic data.
problem Inferring fine-grained bike demands in new cities with limited data.
method Extract features from POI, road networks, and nighttime light; use coPCA for adaptation; apply DWT for daily patterns; use attention-based local CNN (ALCNN).
result ALCNN outperforms other methods in predicting bike demand patterns.
City-GAN learns city architecture styles using a custom GAN architecture.
problem Learning architectural styles of cities using standard GAN and CGAN architectures.
method Proposes a custom GAN architecture to improve learning of city architectural styles.
result Demonstrates superior performance of custom GAN architecture for city architectural style learning.
Study forecasts sub-city real estate prices weekly using radar and news sentiment.
problem Limited availability of reliable real estate price indicators at neighborhood and long horizons.
method Combining satellite radar signals and news sentiment to forecast sub-city real estate prices.
result The multimodal model reduces mean absolute error by 35% at long horizons (26-34 weeks).
D2-City is a diverse traffic dataset for AI development.
problem Lack of comprehensive, detailed datasets for AI in driving.
method Collects over 10,000 dashcam videos with detailed annotations.
result Advances AI in driving perception and related areas.
Deep neural network predicts traffic flow on city maps.
problem Short-term traffic flow prediction on high-resolution city maps.
method UNet-based deep convolutional neural network with densely connected layers.
result Best performance on the Traffic4cast challenge 2019.
SHARE predicts city-wide parking availability using a hierarchical graph neural network.
problem Predicting city-wide parking availability is challenging due to spatial and temporal autocorrelation.
method SHARE uses a hierarchical graph convolution structure with contextual and soft clustering blocks, a recurrent neural network, and a parking availability approximation module.
result SHARE outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in predicting city-wide parking availability.
Project analyzes traffic videos to improve Jakarta's safety.
problem Improving traffic safety in Jakarta.
method Developed a pipeline to analyze traffic videos, turning them into usable databases.
result Better understanding of traffic challenges and safety risks.
For spherical Tits buildings of the classical types there are well-known explicit descriptions as flag complexes. Similarly for affine buildings of the classical types there are explicit constructions in terms of lattices. In this article we generalize the flag complex description to twin cities, a generalization of tw…
We suggest an analytical approach for Pareto-Zipf law, where we assume random multiplicative noise and fragmentation processes for the growth of the number of citizens of each city and the number of the cities, respectively.
Study of urban lifestyles from mobility data of 1.2M people in 11 U.S. cities.
problem Lack of interpretability in digital mobility data for understanding urban lifestyles.
method Privacy-enhanced dataset of mobility visitation patterns, latent activity behavior decomposition.
result Detected 12 latent activity behaviors that describe urban lifestyles, not single lifestyles.
Model predicts climate-sensitive water and electricity use in Midwestern cities.
problem Ensuring conservation measures in growing cities under climate change.
method Statistical learning theory-based modeling framework for predicting climate-sensitive water-electricity demand nexus.
result Water use is slightly more sensitive to climate than electricity use.
New model predicts informal settlements using street intersections data.
problem Identifying and predicting informal settlements in cities.
method Spatial statistics and machine learning (MNL and ANN).
result High validity and accuracy in identifying and predicting informality.