City-Size Distribution and the Size of Urban Systems

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. 905-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Urban System ◽  
City Size ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
City Size Distribution ◽  
The City

This paper is an analysis of the city-size distribution for thirty-five countries of the world in 1975; the purpose is to explain statistically the regularity of the rank-size distribution by the number of cities included in the urban systems. The rank-size parameters have been computed for each country and also for four large urban systems in which several population thresholds have been defined. These thresholds seem to have more influence than the number of cities included in the urban system on the regularity of the distribution.

scholarly journals HOW DOES CITY SIZE DISTRIBUTION IN RUSSIA CHANGE?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Anna N. Bufetova
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Transition Probability ◽  
Urban System ◽  
City Size ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Settlement System ◽  
City Size Distribution ◽  
The City

The abolition of centralized regulation of the economy launched processes changing the settlement system and the structure of the urban system. At the same time, it is the urban settlement system that determines the resource efficiency, and space is one of these resources. In this work, we studied the dynamics of the city-size distribution in Russia in the post-Soviet period and the patterns of cities mobility within the distribution that had induced it. The research method is based on the use of the apparatus of Markov chains, estimation and analysis of transition probability matrices. The results showed a difference, and in some cases the opposite direction, of mobility patterns and dynamics of the city size distribution for the groups of cities located in the western and eastern parts of the country, as well as for groups of cities of different sizes. In general, the identified features of mobility patterns and the dynamics of the city size distribution reflect the trend of population concentration in large cities, the degradation of the urban periphery, the “compression” of the urban system of the eastern part of the country, the decrease in the diversity of the urban system in both western and eastern parts of the country, and the increase in territorial contrasts between their urban systems.

City‐size distribution in the Saudi Arabian Urban system

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim M. Shukri ◽  
Habib M. Alshuwaikhat ◽  
Shaibu Bala Garba
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
City Size ◽  
City Size Distribution

scholarly journals Is Economic Integration a Historical Shock to City-size Distribution?

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Engin Sorhun
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Structural Break ◽  
City Size ◽  
Space Distribution ◽  
Eu Integration ◽  
City Size Distribution ◽  
Bound Test ◽  
The City ◽  
The Eu

Based on the assumption that the economic integration process contributes, via market reforms, to the dynamics of the space distribution in candidate countries, this study examines (i) whether agglomeration forces or dispersion forces are dominant; (ii) whether EU-integration causes a structural break to the space distribution over time; (iii) whether EU-integration makes the city-size distribution more even or uneven in eight eastern European Union members (EU–8). To carry out the analysis, the Ziwot-Andrew and Cusum Square tests are used to detect structural breaks; the ARDL Bound test is used to reveal the interaction between long-run and short-run equilibrium; and the Granger test is used to determine the direction of the causality among the variables. The main results are: the integration with the EU (i) caused a structural break to the city-size distribution, (ii) made the city-size distribution more uneven and (iii) stimulated the agglomerating forces over the spreading forces in the EU–8.

scholarly journals A scale-free transportation network explains the city-size distribution

10.3982/qe619 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1419-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Berliant ◽  
Axel H. Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
City Size ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
City Size Distribution ◽  
The City

Macro and Micro Dynamics of the City Size Distribution

2009 ◽  
pp. 33-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Benguigui ◽  
Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal ◽  
Michael Batty
Keyword(s):  
Size Distribution ◽  
City Size ◽  
City Size Distribution ◽  
The City

City-Size Distributions and the World Urban System in the Twentieth Century

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 1161-1174 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Ettlinger ◽  
J C Archer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Population Change ◽  
Urban System ◽  
City Size ◽  
Size Distributions ◽  
World War ◽  
Geographical Pattern ◽  
World War 2 ◽  
City Size Distribution

In this paper we trace and interpret changes in the geographical pattern and city-size distribution of the world's largest cities in the twentieth century. Since 1900 the geographical distribution of these cities has become increasingly dispersed; their city-size distribution by rank was nearly linear in 1900 and 1940, and convex in 1980. We interpret the convex distribution which emerged following World War 2 as reflecting an economically integrated but politically and demographically partitioned global urban system. Our interpretation of changes in size distribution of cities emphasizes demographic considerations, largely neglected in previous investigations, including migration and relative rates of population change.

China’s development policies and city size distribution: An analysis based on Zipf’s law

Urban Studies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 2818-2834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Fang ◽  
Peng Li ◽  
Shunfeng Song
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Large City ◽  
Urban System ◽  
City Size ◽  
City Development ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
City Size Distribution

Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, China’s urban development policies have experienced dramatic changes, from anti-urbanisation before 1978, to anti-large-city-development during 1978–1999 and coordinated urbanisation in 2000–2012. Using city-level data from 1949 to 2012, this paper examines China’s development policies and city size distribution. Evidenced by the Zipf coefficient, we found that China’s city sizes became more evenly distributed before 2000, and this pattern was reversed after 2000. These findings suggest that China’s urban system is strongly affected by its shifting urban development strategies.

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