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SUBMITTER: Bettencourt LMA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7486396 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bettencourt Luís M A LMA Zünd Daniel D
Nature communications 20200911 1
Urban areas exist in a wide variety of population sizes, from small towns to huge megacities. No proposed form for the statistical distribution of city sizes has received more attention than Zipf's law, a Pareto distribution with power law exponent equal to one. However, this distribution is typically violated by empirical evidence for small and large cities. Moreover, no theory presently exists to derive city size distributions from fundamental demographic choices while also explaining consiste ...[more]