Spatial Patterns and Size Distributions of Cities

• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...