Personne
João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda
Cette personne n’est plus à l’EPFL
Publications associées (13)
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 ...
2021On 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 ...
2020The Scale-Dependent Behaviour of Cities: A Cross-Cities Multiscale Driver Analysis of Urban Energy Use
Franziska Meinherz, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda
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 ...
2019Cities, from Information to Interaction
João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda
From physics to the social sciences, information is now seen as a fundamental component of reality. However, a form of information seems still underestimated, perhaps precisely because it is so pervasive that we take it for granted: the information encoded ...
2018City and interaction: the role of space in social organization
João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda
How can seemingly chaotic personal acts create the coherent systems of interaction that surround us? In this paper, we attempt to answer this key question by suggesting the role for cities on how we coordinate seemingly chaotic decisions. We look into thes ...
PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA PARANA-PUCPR2018A 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 ...
2018Cidade e interação: o papel do espaço urbano na organização social
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 ...
2018Evolution of urban scaling: Evidence from Brazil
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda
During the last years, the new science of cities has been established as a fertile quantitative approach to systematically understand the urban phenomena. One of its main pillars is the proposition that urban systems display universal scaling behavior rega ...
2018Social Interaction and the City: The Effect of Space on the Reduction of Entropy
João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda
How can individual acts amount to coherent systems of interaction? In this paper, we attempt to answer this key question by suggesting that there is a place for cities in the way we coordinate seemingly chaotic decisions. We look into the elementary proces ...
2017A model of urban scaling laws based on distance dependent interactions
João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda
Socio-economic related properties of a city grow faster than a linear relationship with the population, in a log–log plot, the so-called superlinear scaling. Conversely, the larger a city, the more efficient it is in the use of its infrastructure, leading ...
2017