Common power laws for cities and spatial fractal structures [Economic Sciences]

City-size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across a wide range of countries. But such distributions are also meaningful at other spatial scales, such as within certain regions of a country. Using data from China, France, Germany, India, Japan, and the United States, we first document...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - March 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Tomoya Mori, Tony E. Smith, Wen-Tai Hsu Tags: Social Sciences Source Type: research