On the Classification of Cities Into Equal Size Categories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8378474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | CLIFFORD E TIEDEMANN (University of Illinois Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 775-786 |
| Publication date | 1968-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1968.tb01667.x |
| OpenAlex | W2026395030 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
Acceptance of the notion that population is a measurable surrogate for city complexity is requisite for many central place studies. In doing this, however, the researcher is at once confronted with the problem of classifying settlements into equal size categories. The method proposed by Thomas to expand the central place model is discussed in detail and applied to those cities and towns in Michigan having populations greater than one hundred. After noting an inconsistency which arises from this approach, an alternate technique is suggested and demonstrated. Utilizing most of Thomas’ ideas, this second method relies on rank, rather than number of inhabitants, to delimit “equal size'’intervals which are unique for each population value
Archaeology · Combinatorics · Econometrics · Geography · Human settlement · Population · Population size · Rank (graph theory) · Regional science · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics) · Demography · Mathematics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 1980 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |