Does Zipf’s law hold for Polish cities?
In this paper we study Zipf’s law, which postulates that the product of a city’s population and its rank (the number of cities with a larger or equal population) is constant for every city in a given region. We show that the empirical literature indicates that the law may not always hold, although i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016-12-01
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| Series: | Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mgrsd.2016.20.issue-4/mgrsd-2016-0020/mgrsd-2016-0020.xml?format=INT |