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City size dynamics in urban systems

Denise Pumain

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Systems of urban settlements are characterized by their hierarchical organization. The empirical observation of a large set of cities over almost two centuries shows that this hierarchy evolves very slowly, despite the rapid fluctuations in the growth of individual cities. We suggest developing a theory of the evolution of urban systems, which would connect the slow dynamics of their city-size distribution with the more rapid dynamics of the individual cities competing for attracting the populations. Both dynamics are shown to be related to the spatial properties of urban systems.
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halshs-01534934, version 1 (08-06-2017)

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Denise Pumain. City size dynamics in urban systems. S.E.van der Leeuw and J. Mcglade. Time Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology, Routledge, pp.97-117, 1997. ⟨halshs-01534934⟩
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