کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8954627 1646027 2019 40 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Zipf's law, the coherence of the urban system and city size distribution: Evidence from Pakistan
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات فیزیک ریاضی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Zipf's law, the coherence of the urban system and city size distribution: Evidence from Pakistan
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper examines the Zipf's law for the size distribution of Pakistani cities using the five census data from 1951 to 1998. We observe that Zipf's law does not hold in any of the five census years at national level. Next, we consider the city size distribution of four Pakistani provinces and find that Zipf's law is more likely to hold for cities at province-level. We attribute these findings to the coherence property of the urban system. In Pakistan the urban systems within provinces are more coherent in terms of common language, common culture and common rules as compared to the urban system as a whole at national-level.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 513, 1 January 2019, Pages 87-103
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