Rank-size distribution and primate city characteristics in India ? A temporal analysis

Das, Raju J; Dutt, Ashok Κ.

doi:10.1007/bf00812809

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“…where R is the rank of a given city by its size; S is the population; β is the slope of the regression line. Thus, it is preferred to convert rank and size into logarithms as a more precise method of identifying their relationship [70]. Urban centres are ranked by their population and the equation is calculated by taking logarithms of the last equation (Equation (4)):…”

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Silk Road Heritage Branding and Polycentric Tourism Development

2021

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Cultural heritage, considered as a tool for sustainable tourism development and place branding, makes a destination appealing to visitors; hence, cultural heritage tourism can be a driving force for economic growth in cities and regions. Polycentricity is a useful multi-scalar concept in spatial theory that describes how adjacent urban centers can interact with each other, creating synergies and generating broader spatial networks. Cultural heritage and tourism, perceived as important factors of integration in a polycentric spatial structure, can further promote regional branding strategies. In this paper, a polycentricity index is introduced as a methodological tool for networking cultural heritage destinations, with an application to the Silk Road heritage. Silk Road cultural assets traced on the historical Silk Road routes linking East and West, can serve as tourist attraction poles and as an essential component for branding destinations through networking at various spatial scales. The Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in Northern Greece, endowed with a plethora of Silk Road cultural assets, most of which are still untapped, is used to highlight the proposed methodology. The ultimate objective is the designation of polycentric destination networks based on Silk Road assets, in order to build regional branding opportunities over the Region.

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Section: Methodological Frameworkmentioning

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2021

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“…Even the secondary activities also tend to be concentrated in the large and metropolitan cities. These forces result in the emergence of a few very large cities (Das and Dutt, 1993). According to Zipf, it is called the forces of unification and it results in the emergence of small number of large service-oriented cities.…”

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Urban hierarchy inside a divided urban system of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gekıć¹,

Gekıć²

2019

1st Istanbul International Geography Congress Proceedings Book

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Within the framework of the analysis of basic features of the urban system of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its insufficient development with the pronounced predominance of smaller urban settlements is highlighted (more than 65% of urban settlements have less than 10 000 inhabitants). Evident polarization in the urban system of Bosnia and Herzegovina is reflected in the very dynamic monocentrism of the capital city and the regional centers, which is further intensified by the consequences of the war through the resettlement of a large number of refugees and displaced persons. One of the main objectives of this paper is the realization of nature and the change in the level of the urban hierarchy in Bosnia and Herzegovina by determining changes in urbanization and the present differences between urban settlements in a period longer than 30 years . A further analysis of the interdependence of the urban system of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the territorial organization has determined that the urban system of Bosnia and Herzegovina did not represent the basis of the formation of a new political-territorial organization. The dissolution of integrative urban development after 1991 has markedly negative tendencies in the development of the urban system, which has been shown in the last two decades.

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“…Many important methods have been suggested and developed in the depth of research on the city-size distribution. In 1939, Jefferson (1939 first used the primacy index, which measured the degree of dominance of the top cities in a region (Das and Dutt, 1993). Another important approach is the fractal theory, which was proposed by Mandelbrot (1967) and first used to measure the complexity of shoreline geometry.…”

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Intra city-size distribution in the Yangtze River Delta Region: Equalization or polarization

Pang

Zhao

Wang

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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In the context of China’s New Urbanization Strategy, a growing number of cities are beginning to experience significant changes in their intra-city structure and size distribution, but systematic research is still lacking. This paper investigated the intra city-size distribution of 214 cities in China’s Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR) from 1990 to 2020. The study used the Pareto index to portray the equalization differences in intra city-size distribution, and investigated the heterogeneity of its influencing factors using multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR). The results showed that most of the cities in the YRDR had a city-size distribution consistent with a Pareto distribution but still tended to be polarized. Among them, the better-developed large cities and regions were more consistent with the Zipf distribution, as were the county-level cities and prefecture-level cities. In terms of spatio-temporal distribution, the intra city-size distribution showed a spatial agglomeration pattern of “polarization in the west and equalization in the east” and the scope and intensity of cold and hot spots reduced. Regarding driving factors, land, industry, and population were essential influences on the intra city-size distribution. Of these, the natural environment and location were important global influencing factors, and economic and social factors only had a more significant influence in 1990 and 2020. The impact of industry restructuring gradually increased, and the population was a significant influence only in the early years. By exploring the intra city-size distribution, this paper provides a scientific basis for the optimization of town structure and policy formulation in small and medium-sized cities, and some new concerns have been proposed.

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Rank-size distribution and primate city characteristics in India ? A temporal analysis

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Silk Road Heritage Branding and Polycentric Tourism Development

Silk Road Heritage Branding and Polycentric Tourism Development

Urban hierarchy inside a divided urban system of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Intra city-size distribution in the Yangtze River Delta Region: Equalization or polarization

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