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The Shape of City-Size Distributions in a Central Place System

Published:1984-06 Issue:6 Volume:16 Page:749-758
ISSN:0308-518X
Container-title:Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
language:en
Short-container-title:Environ Plan A

Author:

Beguin H¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Geography, Catholic University of Louvain, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to provide an explanation for the shape of city-size distributions in the context of a central place system. Under given assumptions, a model is presented relating this distribution to individual labour productivity and individual consumption pattern. Simulation results show how variations in productivity and consumption explain the slope and curvature (primacy, convexity, S-shape) of city-size distributions.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Environmental Science (miscellaneous),Geography, Planning and Development

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1068/a160749

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