Publications by João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

More from Less? Environmental Rebound Effects of City Size

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Global sustainability relies on our capacity of understanding and guiding urban systems and their metabolism adequately. It has been proposed that bigger and denser cities are more resource-efficient than smaller ones because they tend to demand less infra ...

2021

Evolução das leis de escala urbanas: evidências do Brasil

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

2020

Cities and Entropy: Assessing Urban Sustainability as a Problem of Coordination

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Cambridge University Press2020

More from Less? Environmental Rebound Effects of City Size

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

2020

Sustainability Issues in Urban Systems from a Metabolic Perspective

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Cambridge University Press2020

On the relation between transversal and longitudinal scaling in cities

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Does the scaling relationship between population sizes of cities with urban metrics like economic output and infrastructure (transversal scaling) mirror the evolution of individual cities in time (longitudinal scaling)? The answer to this question has impo ...

2020

Urban carbon footprints: a consumption-based approach for Swiss households

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Vincent Moreau, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Melissa Pang

2019

The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use

Franziska Meinherz, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis

Hosting more than half of the world population, cities are currently responsible for two thirds of the global energy use and three quarters of the global CO2 emissions related to energy use. As humanity becomes more urbanized, urban systems are becoming a ...

2019

A temporal geography of encounters

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Integrating social and spatial networks will be critical to new approaches to cities as systems of interaction. In this paper, we focus on the spatial and temporal conditions of encounters as a key condition for the formation of social networks. Drawing on ...

2018

Cidade e interação: o papel do espaço urbano na organização social [City and interaction: the role of space in social organization]

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

Como ações pessoais, aparentemente caóticas, podem gerar os imensos sistemas de interações em que vivemos? Neste artigo, buscamos responder a esta pergunta sugerindo que há um papel para as cidades, na forma de coordenar nossas ações. Investigamos esse pro ...

PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA PARANA-PUCPR2018