Table 1 Variables used to estimate scaling characteristics.

From: Understanding the mesoscopic scaling patterns within cities

Characteristics

Proxy variables

Dataset

Population

Active population

Mobile phone dataset

Infrastructure volume

Total floor area of buildings

Building dataset

Socioeconomic activity (interaction)

Number of firms

Firm dataset

POIs of commercial facilities

POIs dataset

  1. We assume that the proxy variable is proportional to the corresponding scaling characteristics.