Publications by João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

More from Less? Environmental Rebound Effects of City Size

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

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

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

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

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

2020

Sustainability Issues in Urban Systems from a Metabolic Perspective

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

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

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

2019

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

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Franziska Meinherz, 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

Cities, 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 ...

2018

Evolution of urban scaling: Evidence from Brazil

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

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 ...

2018

Exploring the energy use drivers of 10 cities at microscale level

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

Cities are responsible for the predominant share of anthropogenic environmental pressures. Recently, consistent methodologies to measure the metabolism of cities have been developed in order to enhance comparability between case studies and enable cross-ci ...

Elsevier2017

Uma geografia temporal do encontro

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

A integração de redes sociais e espaciais é fundamental para novas abordagens a cidades como sistemas de interacção. Neste artigo, propomos uma maneira de analisar as condições espaciais e temporais do encontro como condição da formação de redes sociais. R ...

2017

Social 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 ...

2017

A 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