The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities

This article analyzes the dynamic of Brazilian system of cities illustrating the growth of Brazilian population through its own historical peculiarities like internal and international immigration, industrialization, metropolization. Urban hierarchy is revealed by means of the Zipf’s law and Gibrat’...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:bda182f02f2c400392baaf1877cfd0062021-12-02T11:14:20ZThe Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities1278-336610.4000/cybergeo.27349https://doaj.org/article/bda182f02f2c400392baaf1877cfd0062015-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/27349https://doaj.org/toc/1278-3366This article analyzes the dynamic of Brazilian system of cities illustrating the growth of Brazilian population through its own historical peculiarities like internal and international immigration, industrialization, metropolization. Urban hierarchy is revealed by means of the Zipf’s law and Gibrat’s model is used to describe the mechanisms of urban growth. Deviations from this model were explained by studying the specific trajectories of five different classes of cities, on various time scales (from 1872 to 2010 and from 1960 to 2010). These deviations highlight different kinds of factors (political, economic, localization of resources and historical accidents) that shaped the Brazilian system during the last century.Cosmo Antonio IgnazziUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésarticleurbanization/urbanisationZipf’s lawGibraturban hierarchyMarkov chainstrajectoriesGeography (General)G1-922DEENFRITPTCybergeo (2015)
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FR
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topic urbanization/urbanisation
Zipf’s law
Gibrat
urban hierarchy
Markov chains
trajectories
Geography (General)
G1-922
spellingShingle urbanization/urbanisation
Zipf’s law
Gibrat
urban hierarchy
Markov chains
trajectories
Geography (General)
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Cosmo Antonio Ignazzi
The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities
description This article analyzes the dynamic of Brazilian system of cities illustrating the growth of Brazilian population through its own historical peculiarities like internal and international immigration, industrialization, metropolization. Urban hierarchy is revealed by means of the Zipf’s law and Gibrat’s model is used to describe the mechanisms of urban growth. Deviations from this model were explained by studying the specific trajectories of five different classes of cities, on various time scales (from 1872 to 2010 and from 1960 to 2010). These deviations highlight different kinds of factors (political, economic, localization of resources and historical accidents) that shaped the Brazilian system during the last century.
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title The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities
title_short The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities
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title_fullStr The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities
title_full_unstemmed The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities
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