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  • Demography
  • Urban Studies
  • Spatial Analysis

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  • Understanding complex demographic dynamics and urban growth is challenging.
  • Millions of individual decisions influence migration and city expansion.
  • Existing quantitative models for urban growth show limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To uncover regularities in urban sprawl patterns.
  • To quantify the inertia of city growth.
  • To analyze the spatial interactions between cities.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an extensive demographic dataset from Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE).
  • Analyzed 111 years of data covering over 8,000 population centers and 45 million people.
  • Applied time and spatial correlation analysis to urban growth data.

Main Results:

  • Identified a characteristic time of 15 years for city growth inertia.
  • Determined a characteristic distance of 80 km for city interactions.
  • Found that distance is the dominant factor (60%) in city interdependencies.

Conclusions:

  • Urban sprawl exhibits significant temporal and spatial regularities.
  • City growth is influenced by inertia and interactions with neighboring urban areas.
  • Distance plays a crucial role in shaping urban network dynamics, enhancing social theories.