Carvalho, Rui; Penn, Alan - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 332 (2004) C, pp. 539-547
We present a broad, phenomenological picture of the distribution of the length of open space linear segments, l, derived from maps of 36 cities in 14 different countries. By scaling the Zipf plot of l, we obtain two master curves for a sample of cities, which are not a function of city size. We...