Urban Rank-Size Hierarchy:  A Mathematical Interpretation

Fonseca, James W.

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
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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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