Urban scaling laws arise from within-city inequalities

City of dreams

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The Trojan-horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation

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Estimating the drivers of urban economic complexity and their connection to economic performance

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Complex economic activities concentrate in large cities

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Urban growth and the emergent statistics of cities

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Understanding the mesoscopic scaling patterns within cities

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Urban scaling and the regional divide

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Scaling trajectories of cities

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The value of complementary co-workers

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Unpacking the polarization of workplace skills

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Skill networks and measures of complex human capital

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The Dynamics of Inequality

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Settlement scaling and increasing returns in an ancient society

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The scaling of human interactions with city size

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Professional diversity and the productivity of cities

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The Origins of Scaling in Cities

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Urban characteristics attributable to density-driven tie formation

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration From Firm Selection

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A unified theory of urban living

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

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Superlinear scaling for innovation in cities

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Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

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