Most studies of the size, growth, and distribution of cities have been based on Western
economies and have identified economic factors such as scale and agglomeration …

The concept of the city size distribution is criticized for its lack of consideration of the effects
of interurban interdependencies on the growth of cities. Theoretical justifications for the rank …

Metropolitan evolution is conceptualised from a broad, long term perspective that focuses on
demographic and sectoral economic variables. Emphasis is placed on understanding these …

Uneven development has long been a critical issue in geography and urban studies,
leading to economically inefficient urbanization, environmentally unbalanced regions, and …

This paper is an analysis of the historical change in city size distribution in India from the
perspectives provided by Zipf and Jefferson. Rank-size distribution at national level and …

This book on the regional development theory analyzes the institutional environment,
singling out three factors: the textile industry; government that provided key infrastructural …

This paper studies the trend of urbanization in China, examines the evolution of the urban
scale structure in China through the development of a quadratic regression model for the …

The late prehistoric and protohistoric population of eastern Sonora, Mexico, has been
described on the basis of reports by early Spanish explorers, as being organized into …

In this paper we trace and interpret changes in the geographical pattern and city-size
distribution of the world's largest cities in the twentieth century. Since 1900 the geographical …