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journal article Zipf's Law for Cities: An ExplanationThe Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 114, No. 3 (Aug., 1999) , pp. 739-767 (29 pages) Published By: Oxford University Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/2586883 Read and download Log in through your school or library Alternate access options For independent researchers Subscribe to JPASS Unlimited reading + 10 downloads Purchase article $39.00 - Download now and later Abstract Zipf's law is a very tight constraint on the class of admissible models of local growth. It says that for most countries the size distribution of cities strikingly fits a power law: the number of cities with populations greater than S is proportional to 1/S. Suppose that, at least in the upper tail, all cities follow some proportional growth process (this appears to be verified empirically). This automatically leads their distribution to converge to Zipf's law. Journal Information The Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) is the oldest professional journal of economics in the English language. Edited at Harvard University's Department of Economics, it covers all aspects of the field -- from the journal's traditional emphasis on microtheory, to both empirical and theoretical macroeconomics. QJE is invaluable to professional and academic economists and students around the world. Publisher Information Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. It currently publishes more than 6,000 new publications a year, has offices in around fifty countries, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and academic journals. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Vocab:
Primate CityDefinition: The largest settlement in a country, must have MORE than 2x the people than the second ranking city. It should be disproportionately large and a leader in national capacity and expressions.
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 All AP Human Geography ResourcesAccording to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population of 1,000,000, then the fourth largest city in that country would have a population of approximately __________. Correct answer: Explanation: The rank size rule states that the largest city in a given country will have of the population of the largest city in that country. If the largest city has a population 1,000,000, and we want to know the population of the fourth largest city, it will have of the population of the largest city. of 1,000,000 is 250,000 people. The rank-size rule is related to the size of which of the following answer choices? Possible Answers: All of these The income-level of the different populations within cities Urban neighborhoods Ethnic populations within cities Cities Explanation: The “rank-size rule” is related to the relative size of cities. According to the rank-size rule, there should be a larger number of small cities than bigger cities. Also, this rule predicts that the larger a city’s population is then the fewer number of cities there should be in the surrounding area with a similar population. All AP Human Geography ResourcesWhich of the following occurs when the cities in the country follow the rankWhich of the following occurs when the cities in a country follow the rank-size rule and the country has a primate city? The largest city is two times the population of the next-largest city.
What does rankIt states that the rank associated with a given size S is inversely proportional to S at a given power. If this power is equal to one, Zipf's law collapses into what is commonly called the rank-size rule.
What does the rankExplanation: The rank size rule states that the largest city in a given country will have of the population of the largest city in that country. If the largest city has a population 1,000,000, and we want to know the population of the fourth largest city, it will have of the population of the largest city.
What is the rankRank Size Rule. In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.
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Which of the following occurs when the cities in a country follow the rank size rule?
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