Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Papers in regional science
74 (1995), S. 0
ISSN:
1435-5957
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Geography
,
Economics
Notes:
A further step towards a dynamic model for the observed size distribution of a system of settlements is presented. The occurrence and temporal stability of the rank-size distribution is obtained as the result of a dynamic self-organizing process of the nested system of settlements. The inherent time scale of this self-organizing process and the obtained hierarchical structure are related to the generally low inter settlement mobility of urban population, the tendency of the population to agglomerate, distance effects and preference effects. The well-known migration model of Weidlich and Haag is used as starting point and three approaches to express the attractivity in the system are compared. The stationary state is investigated in detail under some limiting conditions.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1435-5597.1995.tb00640.x
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