Rank-size City Dynamics in China and India, 1981–2004

Schaffar, Alexandra; Dimou, Michel

doi:10.1080/00343404.2010.521146

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“…The steep curve among the larger Chinese cities suggests that when it comes to big areas, China is more like Brazil than like the U.S. China also has far fewer extremely large cities than Zipf's Law would suggest. The -.91 estimate is larger in magnitude than Soo (2014), but smaller than Schaffar and Dimou (2012) and Rose (2006).…”

Section: China Indiamentioning

confidence: 66%

What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

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Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data, however, repeatedly rejects tests inspired by the spatial equilibrium assumption. One hypothesis is that the spatial equilibrium only emerges with economic development, as markets replace social relationships and as human capital spreads more widely. In all four countries there is strong evidence of agglomeration economies and human capital externalities. The correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the gap between urban and rural wages is huge, but the correlation between city size and earnings is modest. The cross-sectional relationship between area-level skills and both earnings and area-level growth are also stronger in the developing world than in the U.S. The forces that drive urban success seem similar in the rich and poor world, even if limited migration and difficult housing markets make it harder for a spatial equilibrium to develop.

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Section: China Indiamentioning

confidence: 66%

What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

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“…When studying city growth in France (1876France ( -1990 and Japan (1925Japan ( -1985, Eaton and Eckstein (1997) found that the large cities maintained their ranking over the entire reference time, which means that city growth is parallel, rather than divergent or convergent. Other studies that found supports for parallel growth are Dobkins and Ioannides (2001), Black and Henderson (2003), Sharma (2003), Resende (2004), Schaffar and Dimou (2012). But another strand of lit-erature has shown that city growth presents sequential characteristics (Anderson and Ge, 2005;Henderson and Venables, 2009;Sheng and Sun, 2013).…”

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confidence: 98%

From sequential to parallel growth of cities: Theory and evidence from Canada

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This paper examines city growth patterns and the corresponding city size distribution evolution over long periods of time using a simple New Economic Geography (NEG) model and urban population data from Canada. The main findings are twofold. First, there is a transition from sequential to parallel growth of cities over long periods of time: city growth shows a sequential mode in the stage of rapid urbanization, i.e., the cities with the best development conditions will take the lead in growth, after which the cities with higher ranks will become the fastest-growing cities; in the late stage of urbanization, city growth converges according to Gibrat′s law, and exhibits a parallel growth pattern. Second, city size distribution is found to have persistent structural characteristics: the city system is self-organized into multiple discrete size groups; city growth shows club convergence characteristics, and the cities with similar development conditions eventually converge to a similar size. The results will not only enhance our understanding of urbanization process, but will also provide a timely and clear policy reference for promoting the healthy urbanization of developing countries.

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“…Anderson and Ge (2005) examined the manner in which cities of different sizes grow relative to each other in China and, contrary to the common empirical finding that the relative size and rank of cities remained stable over time, it was found that the Economic Reforms and the 'One Child Policy' that has been in place since 1979 have delivered significant structural changes to the Chinese urban system (Fan, 1988). Another study by Schaffar and Dimou (2012) compared the rank-size Dynamics in China and India between 1981 and 2004. The evolution of these two distributions over the last twenty years differs.…”

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A Rank-Size Rule Analysis of The City System at The Country and Province Level in Turkey

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2018

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The present study investigates the rank-size distribution of cities above 10,000 in Turkey for the years 2000 and 2012, and the results are compared with the findings related to 1945 and 1975. A regression analysis is employed to reveal the relationships between the slopes of city size distribution and the characteristics of provinces. The results show that despite the political and economic transformations of the last decade, there is a perfect adjustment of the city size distribution to the rank-size rule at the country level due to existence of a well-established urban system. Furthermore, when the metropolitan areas began to decentralize, urbanization levels start to increase in their surrounding areas, as observed in this study.

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Rank-size City Dynamics in China and India, 1981–2004

Cited by 53 publications

References 41 publications

What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

From sequential to parallel growth of cities: Theory and evidence from Canada

A Rank-Size Rule Analysis of The City System at The Country and Province Level in Turkey

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