Demography and the emergence of universal patterns in urban systems

According to Zipf’s law, the population size of a city is inversely proportional to its size rank in any urban system. The authors show how demography explains this law as a time average of balanced migration between cities and how deviations express information about people’s net preferences.

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Auteurs principaux: Luís M. A. Bettencourt, Daniel Zünd
Format: article
Langue:EN
Publié: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/ed3108dd1947424f8f75db65214bc6c8
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