Common power laws for cities and spatial fractal structures

• Main Authors: MORI, Tomoya, SMITH, Tony E., HSU, Wen-Tai
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: City size; Fractal structure; Power law; Spatial hierarchy; Growth and Development; Industrial Organization; Regional Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2372; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3371/viewcontent/common_power__PV.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

City-size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across a wide range of countries. But such distributions are also meaningful at other spatial scales, such as within certain regions of a country. Using data from China, France, Germany, India, Japan, and the United States, we f...