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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Nature Portfolio
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/ed3108dd1947424f8f75db65214bc6c8 |
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| Sumario: | 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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