Electronic Resource
Boston, USA and Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishers Inc
Journal of regional science
42 (2002), S. 0
ISSN:
1467-9787
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Geography
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Economics
Notes:
An explanation for the rank-size distribution for human settlements based on simple stochastic models of settlement formation and growth is presented. Not only does the analysis of the model explain the rank-size phenomenon in the upper tail, it also predicts a reverse rank-size phenomenon in the lower tail. Furthermore it yields a parametric form (the double Pareto-lognormal distribution) for the complete distribution of settlement sizes. Settlement-size data for four regions (two in Spain and two in the U.S.) are used as examples. For these regions the lower tail rank-size property is seen to hold and the double Pareto-lognormal distribution shown to provide an excellent fit, lending support to the model and to the explanation for the rank-size law.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9787.00247
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