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CITIES
Volume 29, Issue -, Pages S17-S23Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2011.11.007
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Zipf; Rank-size; Gibrat; Pareto; Lognormal; City size; Megalopolis
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Four phases of interest in the distribution of city sizes are identified and current conflict in the literature is shown to be a consequence of poorly-selected units of observation. When urban regions are properly defined, US urban growth obeys Gibrat's Law and the city size distribution is strictly Zipfian rank-size with coefficient q = 1.0. Care has to be taken with definition of the largest urban-economic regions, however; the fit in the upper tail of the distribution is best when they are recognized to be megalopolitan in scale. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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