Affiliation:
1. Southern Federal University, Rostov-On-Don, Russia
Abstract
The lack of discernible changes in the Russian (hereinafter RF) settlement system after the transition from a centrally managed economy to a capitalist economy seems to be contrary to the established view of the exceptional character of capitalist-style settlement systems. To explain this misunderstanding, we compared the state of settlement systems in Russia and in the United States between 1959 and 2020 in this paper. The measures of shape of the Pareto curve were used to quantify the state of the settlement systems: critical exponent, asymmetry coefficient, and Gini coefficient. The study found that the system of settlement in RF territories during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods had the same order and development trend as the system of settlement in US states. The order of urban systems in regions correlates with the local average annual temperatures. The results have led us to conclude that the settlement systems were independent from the economic paradigm.
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