Relating SDG11 indicators and urban scaling – An exploratory study

Targets towards “Sustainable Cities and Communities” are formulated under the 11th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). In parallel, recent city science suggests that economies of scale could improve city efficiency and thereby support urban sustainability. In this paper we inspect the association between country-wide SDG11 indicators and urban scaling exponents, i.e. the scaling between an indicator value vs. city population, separated by...