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Urban Rank-Size Hierarchy: A Mathematical Interpretation
dc.contributor.authorFonseca, James W.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-04-24T15:10:49Z
dc.date.available2008-04-24T15:10:49Z
dc.date.issued1988en_US
dc.identifier.citationFonseca, 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/2027.42/58235en_US
dc.identifier.isbn1-877751-16-2en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/58235
dc.descriptionFrom 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
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dc.publisherInstitute of Mathematical Geographyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesInstitute of Mathematical Geography (IMaGe) Monograph Seriesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIMaGe Monograph #8en_US
dc.subjectRank-sizeen_US
dc.subjectUrbanen_US
dc.subjectHierarchyen_US
dc.subjectSpiralen_US
dc.titleUrban Rank-Size Hierarchy: A Mathematical Interpretationen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelGeography and Mapsen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherGeorge Mason Universityen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusAnn Arboren_US
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dc.owningcollnameMathematical Geography, Institute of (IMaGe)


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