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Analysis of city size distribution in Ethiopia: Empirical evidence from 1984 to 2012

Journal of Urban Management, 2019
Urbanisation in Ethiopia is increasing rapidly. This paper uses city-level data to investigate the evolution of Ethiopia’s city size distribution from 1984 to 2012, using descriptive statistics and time-series Gini coefficient calculations.
Amha Ermias, Jan Bogaert, Fisseha Wogayehu   +2 more
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What determines urban resilience against COVID-19: City size or governance capacity? [PDF]

Sustain Cities Soc, 2021
Chu Z, Cheng M, Song M.
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Modeling fractal structure of city-size distributions using correlation functions. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Zipf's law is one the most conspicuous empirical facts for cities, however, there is no convincing explanation for the scaling relation between rank and size and its scaling exponent.
Yanguang Chen
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City size, administrative rank, and Rural–Urban migration in China

Journal of Urban Management
This study investigates the effects of city size and administrative rank on rural–urban migration in China and examines the factors that influence the city size effect. We focus on unemployed while job-seeking migrants. Using data from the China Migrants
Chengri Ding, Mingsheng Wang, Zhongxing Guo, Ning Chen   +3 more
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Urban Resilience and Its Links to City Size: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Land, 2023
Understanding the relationship between city size and resilience is crucial for informed decisions on preparedness and interventions in building resilient cities. This study addresses this issue by dividing urban resilience into four components: stability,
Liang Wang, Jingye Li, Ligang Lv
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Dynamics of the Size Distribution of the Russian Non-Capital Cities in the Post-Soviet Period [PDF]

Экономика региона, 2020
The urban system and its diversity are essential resources for economic development. At the intra-regional level, cities that do not have the status of the regional administrative centre shape the structure and diversity of the urban system.
Anna N. Bufetova
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City size, technological innovation, and urban income inequality: Empirical evidence from China family panel studies

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Cities in China are expanding and evolving innovatively at an accelerated rate. In this context, the question of whether all communities and individuals may benefit equally from urbanization and innovation merits investigation. We develop a two-way fixed-
Xinfang Zhang, Yu Fu, Haitao Zhuang
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A Study on the Spatial Association Network of CO₂ Emissions from the Perspective of City Size: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration

Buildings, 2022
City size expansion in China creates substantial economic circulation, which impacts CO2 emissions. Since CO2 production primarily comes from human activities, CO2 emissions are mainly in cities.
Weidan Liu, Yuanhe Sun, Weiguang Cai, Yanyan Ke, Hong Ren   +4 more
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Delaware City Peaches

A reproduction of a photograph of famous Delaware City peaches being loaded in ...
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History and the Sizes of Cities [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
We contrast evidence of urban path dependence with efforts to analyze calibrated models of city sizes. Recent evidence of persistent city sizes following the obsolescence of historical advantages suggests that path dependence cannot be understood as the medium-run effect of legacy capital but instead as the long-run effect of equilibrium selection. In
Hoyt Bleakley, Jeffrey Lin
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