Urban Rank-Size Hierarchy: A Mathematical Interpretation
dc.contributor.author | Fonseca, James W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-04-24T15:10:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-04-24T15:10:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1988 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Fonseca, James W. Urban Rank-Size Hierarchy: A Mathematical Interpretation. Ann Arbor: Institute of Mathematical Geography, Monograph Series, Monograph #8, 1989. 85 pages + Persistent URL (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58235 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 1-877751-16-2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58235 | |
dc.description | From the Introduction: Despite seventy years of intensive research, the mathematical nature of the urban rank-size hierarchy is still subject to much debate (Carroll, 1982). Stewart (1958, 245) has argued that urban distributions approximate an "S" shaped logistics curve, others suggest a "J" shaped distribution and that linearity in the data exists only in truncated portions of the distribution (Carroll, 1979) The research in this monograph demonstrates a new interpretation of rank-size regularities: data which conform, in general, to a rank-size pattern, approximate the curve of an equiangular spiral. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1349 bytes | |
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dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Institute of Mathematical Geography | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Institute of Mathematical Geography (IMaGe) Monograph Series | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IMaGe Monograph #8 | en_US |
dc.subject | Rank-size | en_US |
dc.subject | Urban | en_US |
dc.subject | Hierarchy | en_US |
dc.subject | Spiral | en_US |
dc.title | Urban Rank-Size Hierarchy: A Mathematical Interpretation | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Geography and Maps | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | George Mason University | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58235/2/Monograph08.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Mathematical Geography, Institute of (IMaGe) |
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