Spatial Patterns and Size Distributions of Cities

Spatial Patterns and Size Distributions of Cities

City size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across many countries. By far the most popular explanation for such power-law regularities is in terms of random growth processes, where power laws arise asymptotically from the assumption of iid growth rates among all cities wi...

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Main Authors: Hsu, Wen-Tai, MORI, Tomoya, SMITH, Tony E.
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
Subjects:
city size distributions
power law
Zipf’s law
random growth
inter-city space
geography
Voronoi partition
Economic region
Central place theory
Economics
Public Economics
Urban Studies and Planning
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1530
https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~tesmith/PAPER_with_MORI_HSU.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1530
https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~tesmith/PAPER_with_MORI_HSU.pdf

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