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• New paper about the meaning of scaling in cities

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• New review article on modeling urban sprawl

      published in Physics Reports​​

      (shorter version published 

      in Spatial Economic Analysis)

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• New paper about the feasibility of the 15-minutes city

      on the arXiv ​

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• New chess paper about Chess960 published

      in J. Phys: Complexity (and on the arxiv)

      Article in: the New Scientist​, Popular Science​, ​

      Phys.org​, La Nature, Physics World, LesNews.ca

      the Times

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• Paper published in PRE: From lines to networks

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• 10/2025 - New paper published in PRL:

        Roughness and dynamics of urban sprawl

       Article in SIAM news: "The Physics of

       Surfaces: Why City Growth is so Rough"​

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• 10/2025 - New paper about the relation

     between Heaps law and Zipf's law (arXiv)

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• Paper published in PRL: Universal Model of

      Urban Street Networks

      (also on arXiv)

      See also the interesting blog post by David O'Sullivan

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• New menu in this website: "Chess"

      Explore blogs, data, and code dedicated

      to the science of chess.

      Your comments and suggestions are most welcome!

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