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faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of …

This study provides a systematic review of the existing literature on Zipf's law for city size
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Tracking the development of cities in emerging economies is difficult with conventional data.
This paper shows that nighttime lights can be used as a reliable proxy for economic activity …

This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as
economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural …

This paper examines the effects of the new economy on national city size distribution in 102
countries. Results show that the new economy has significant effects on city size …

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow
faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of …

This paper uses nighttime luminosity to estimate a globally comparable measure of the size
of metropolitan areas around the world for the years 2000 and 2010. We apply recently …

This comprehensive, introductory text takes an applied, interdisciplinary approach. Because
one author is a sociologist and the other a demographer, the text introduces perspectives …

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I develop a systematic approach to examine the drivers of population growth in Colombian
cities between 1993 and 2010. Fertility plays an important role. Much of the higher growth of …