Urban Hierarchies and City Growth in the Balkans

Dimou, Michel; Schaffar, Alexandra

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“…Second, the comparison of economic efficiency and economic-environmental efficiency shows that traditional measurement driven by GDP is overestimated in megacities and large cities. Third, scale efficiency among seven types of cities is still at a relatively low level: (1) inefficient use of infrastructure investment of Type I and Type II big cities is 19.3% and 17.9%, respectively; (2) inefficient use of land and labor in medium-sized cities is 9.9% and 8.3%; (3) there is a huge number of inefficient uses of urban land and labor in Type I and Type II small cities, with the redundancy degree of land reaching 29.9% and 29.0%, respectively, and the redundancy degree of labor reaching 14.2% and 26.0%, respectively.…”

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“…The spatial and temporal evolution of urban hierarchy has drawn considerable scholarly interests [1][2][3] and societal concerns [4][5][6]. In China, labor and capital have been largely migrating to coastal metropolitan areas since the 1990s [7][8][9], which has been contributing to serious urban problems, such as traffic congestion, environment pollution and resource limitation, alongside threatening social stability and sustainable development [10,11].…”

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Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Urban Systems in China during Rapid Urbanization

Wei

Ning

2016

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Abstract:The structure of urban hierarchy and the role of cities of different sizes have drawn considerable scholarly interests and societal concerns. This paper analyzes the evolution and underlying mechanisms of urban hierarchy in China during the recent period of rapid urbanization. By comparing scale changes of seven types of cities (megacity, large city, Type I big city, Type II big city, medium-sized city, type I small city and type II small city), we find that allometry is the main characteristic of urban hierarchical evolution in China. We also test the validity of Zipf's law and Gibrat's law, which broaden the scope of existing studies by including county-level cities. We find that urban hierarchical distribution is lognormal, rather than Pareto. The result also shows that city size growth rates are constant across cities of different types. For better understanding of the mechanisms of urban hierarchical formation, we measure the optimal city size and resource allocation by the Pareto optimality criterion and non-parametric frontier method. The main findings are as follows: (1) scale efficiency is still at a relatively low level among the seven types of cities; (2) the economic efficiency of megacities and large cities is overestimated when compared to economic-environmental efficiency. Hence, this paper has two policy implications: (1) to correct factor market (land, labor and infrastructure investment) distortions among different types of cities for the improvement of efficiency; (2) to strengthen rural property rights to improve social equity, as well as land use intensity.

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Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Urban Systems in China during Rapid Urbanization

Wei

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2016

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“…The overall hierarchy of neighbourhoods in Parakou therefore remained stable since the 70s date and shows that despite the scale of analysis, Literature findings on asymptotic movements of the rank-size distribution remains probable [32]. The empirical approaches of using the Pareto principle, the work is conducted following hypothetical conditions is random urban growth or endogenous urban growth determined by important exogenous shocks [33].…”

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Urban Growth Evaluation by Coupling Descriptive Analysis and Zipf’s Rank-Size Model in Parakou (Benin)

Lanmandjèkpogni¹

2019

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Parakou occupies a strategic place in the socio-economic development of Benin due to its geographical position.Based on the Urban Land Registry data, and census data from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics coupling with the statistical description and adjustment to the distribution Zipf rank-size model, allowed us to describe the urban hierarchy on the scale of Parakou localities over the period 1979 to 2013. The changes in densities of population occupation per decade show a tendency to sprawl from the 2000s and linear and quadratic adjustments are satisfactory (linear: 0.81≤ R² ≤ 0.95 and quadratic: 0.95 ≤ R 2 ≤ 0.98) and significant at 1% (P-value = 0.000) to 88%. The linear coefficients of Pareto are continuously decreasing (|α| = 1.749 to |α| = 0.831 between 1979 and 2002), and reflect that the weight of big cities keeps an influence on small and medium-sized cities over this period, while a slight increase was observed in the courtyard of the decade from 2002 to 2013 (|α| = 0.861 in 2013) and shows the effect of the creation of new districts with the gradual loss of the influence of the old districts of the central core. The results suggest that population growth of the city is occurred with urban sprawl controlled by exogenous factors of infrastructures or land type. Managements of spatial planning structures are then arrested in the guidelines to provide land for the human impacts control on natural resources of watersheds.

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“…Lorsqu'elle e´tudie les effets de la partition du continent indien en 1947, Sharma (2003) rejette la loi de Gibrat (inde´pendance entre la taille et le taux de croissance) pour les villes indiennes sur le long terme. Dimou et Schaffar (2007, 2009) examinent, de leur coˆte´, la fac¸on dont la taille urbaine amortit ou acce´le`re les effets des chocs externes, dans leur analyse des villes balkaniques, durant la pe´riode 1981-2001, marque´e par la partition de l'ex-Yougoslavie et l'effondrement des re´gimes communistes, libe´rant les migrations des travailleurs et des me´nages.…”

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“…Ces travaux examinent l'e´volution de diffe´rentes distributions des tailles urbaines (Soo, 2005;Dimou et Schaffar, 2007;Catin et Schaffar, 2011) et la nature de la croissance urbaine en s'appuyant sur diffe´rentes outils tels que les chaıˆnes de Markov (Black et Henderson, 2003;Sharma, 2003;Dimou et Schaffar 2009), les tests de stationnariteé n panel (Schaffar and Dimou, 2012) ou les tests de co-inte´gration (Schaffar, 2010). L'ensemble de ces travaux a permis de caracte´riser la nature de la croissance de´mo-graphique des villes, mais ne teste pas re´ellement la relation entre la taille et la croissance urbaine.…”

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La croissance urbaine chinoise: convergence ou marche aléatoire?

2012

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The aim of this article is to analyze the patterns of the Chinese urban growth from 1984 to 2004, a period of important economic, social and institutional changes within this country. This article follows a two-sequenced methodological path. First, it applies Ioannides et Overman's seminal work on urban growth, by elaborating a non-parametric relation between urban growth rates and city-size. Second, it uses convergence tests in order to study the city-size evolution. The article delivers evidence that when migrations are institutionally controlled, urban growth leads to convergence; when these controls loosen-up, urban growth follows a random walk process. L'objectif de cet article est de proposer une analyse de la croissance urbaine chinoise entre 1984 et 2004, une pe´riode marque´e par des changements e´conomiques, sociaux et institutionnels importants. Sur le plan me´thodologique, ce travail s'appuie d'une part, sur une application de la de´marche initie´e par Ioannides et Overman (2003) permettant d'e´tablir une relation non parame´trique entre le taux de croissance des villes et la taille urbaine et d'autre part, sur une analyse de la convergence des tailles urbaines chinoises. Ce travail montre que sous un re´gime de controˆle des migrations, la croissance urbaine de´pend de la de´mographie des villes et conduit a`une convergence des tailles urbaines. A partir des re´formes de 1993 et l'assouplissement de ces controˆles, la croissance urbaine chinoise emprunte une marche ale´atoire.

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Urban Hierarchies and City Growth in the Balkans

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Urban Systems in China during Rapid Urbanization

Spatial and Temporal Evolution of Urban Systems in China during Rapid Urbanization

Urban Growth Evaluation by Coupling Descriptive Analysis and Zipf’s Rank-Size Model in Parakou (Benin)

La croissance urbaine chinoise: convergence ou marche aléatoire?

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