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City-Size Distribution and the Size of Urban Systems
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1985This 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 ...
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Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1989
Restrictive policies on domestic migration in the USSR and their role in preventing excessive urbanization are discussed. The authors first describe the policy tools that the Soviet government has used to control city size. They then test how effective Soviet policy has been by comparing the actual distribution of Soviet city sizes to a distribution ...
Clayton, Elizabeth, Richardson, Thomas
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Restrictive policies on domestic migration in the USSR and their role in preventing excessive urbanization are discussed. The authors first describe the policy tools that the Soviet government has used to control city size. They then test how effective Soviet policy has been by comparing the actual distribution of Soviet city sizes to a distribution ...
Clayton, Elizabeth, Richardson, Thomas
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Russian Social Science Review, 2018
This article discusses the main theoretical and empirical arguments for developing large agglomerations in Russia.
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This article discusses the main theoretical and empirical arguments for developing large agglomerations in Russia.
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The Sizes and Types of Cities [PDF]
American Economic Review, 1972 This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of an economy where production and consumption occur in cities. The paper focuses on the different sizes and types of cities generated by market forces and whether these market forces generate optimally size cities.
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City Size, Population Concentration and Productivity: Evidence from China
China & World Economy, 2019This paper investigates the impact of China's city size and urban population concentration on city productivity by developing a distinctive index based on global nighttime light data.
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Pediatrics, 1978
. . . records of urban populations suggest that for most of human history cities did not generally grow beyond the 50,000 to 100,000 range. For most of its celebrated life the city of Athens hovered around 50,000 people, though at periods of particular power the surrounding state may have grown to 150,000 or 200,000.
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. . . records of urban populations suggest that for most of human history cities did not generally grow beyond the 50,000 to 100,000 range. For most of its celebrated life the city of Athens hovered around 50,000 people, though at periods of particular power the surrounding state may have grown to 150,000 or 200,000.
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Global city size hierarchy: Spatial patterns, regional features, and implications for China
Habitat International, 2017Chuanglin Fang, Bo Pang, Haimeng Liu
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One or infinite optimal city sizes? In search of an equilibrium size for cities
The Annals of Regional Science, 2012In this paper, the stylized assumption that one single “optimal” city size exists for all cities—achieved when marginal location costs equal marginal location benefits—is abandoned, as well as the opposite view that each city operates on its own cost and production curves, defining a specific optimal size. Instead, this work maintains the comparability
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The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities
Science, 2008Despite a century of effort, our understanding of how cities evolve is still woefully inadequate. Recent research, however, suggests that cities are complex systems that mainly grow from the bottom up, their size and shape following well-defined scaling laws that result from intense competition for space.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Abstract I examine the long-run effects of the timing of railroad construction on city sizes. I first present a stylized model that predicts that towns that are railroad end points for a longer period of time become persistently larger. I then show that, in a sample of Brazilian railroad towns, time as end point strongly predicts town
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Abstract I examine the long-run effects of the timing of railroad construction on city sizes. I first present a stylized model that predicts that towns that are railroad end points for a longer period of time become persistently larger. I then show that, in a sample of Brazilian railroad towns, time as end point strongly predicts town
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