Lognormal Estimates of Macroregional City-Size Distributions, 1950-1970
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4142227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee De Cola (0000-0002-3606-057X, West Virginia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1637-1652 |
| Publication date | 1985-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a171637 |
| OpenAlex | W2098558861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
A three-parameter lognormal model is used to estimate the city-size distribution of the world and of eight UN-defined macroregions. The model is found to fit the data better than the Pareto function, and to provide a powerful means of comparing distributions among regions. Although system concentration (measured by the standard deviation index) is relatively stable in Europe and in the world at large, it is decreasing in North America, Africa, and East Asia, and increasing in Latin America and South Asia. Cities in the 250000-500000 size class are somewhat more numerous than predicted, suggesting the possibility of some kind of 'optimum'. The theory of extreme values is used to predict the most populous city of a region and to compare predictions with actual maxima, demonstrating that the largest cities in the world are well within systematic possibilities
Econometrics · Extreme value theory · Generalized Pareto distribution · Geography · Log-normal distribution · Maxima · Standard deviation · Statistics · History · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Contemporary urban ecology
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
Five Bell Shapes in Development
National city-size distributions
Theory of the distribution of city sizes
The size distribution of cities
Settlement Populations and the Lognormal Distribution
Urbanization and modernization
A class of deviations from rank-size regularity
Autocorrelated Growth Rates and the Pareto Law
The Lognormal Distribution
Migration between core and peripheral regions
National Unity and Disunity
Statistical Determinants of the Population of a Nation's Largest City
Mathematical Explorations in Behavioral Science
A Formulation of the Pareto Distribution
A City-Size Distribution Model Based on the Weber-Fechner Law of Marginal Effects
Urban Concentration, Agglomeration Economies, and the Level of Economic Development
Lower Order Cities and National Urbanization Policies
Growth and Change in the Analysis of Rank-Size Distributions
Hiérarchie des places centrales et graphes Φ-Flous
The Yule-Simon Model in its Limiting Case as a Pure Migration Process
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1988 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |