City-Size Distribution and the Size of Urban Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4815518 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iris Thomas (0000-0003-3386-2427, UCLouvain, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 905-913 |
| Publication date | 1985-07-01 |
| 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/a170905 |
| PMID | 12340272 |
| OpenAlex | W2048569451 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 12 |
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
Econometrics · Economic geography · Geography · Population · Population size · Sociology · Statistics · Yearbook · Computer Science · Demography · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Dependency and Urban Growth
National city-size distributions
Theory of the distribution of city sizes
The Rank-Size rule in the absence of growth
The size distribution of cities
Changes in the Size Distribution of Settlements in England and Wales, 1801-1968
Growth and Change in the Analysis of Rank-Size Distributions
La dynamique des villes
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |