Testing Heaps’ law for cities using administrative and gridded population data sets

Testing Heaps’ law for cities using administrative and gridded population data sets

Abstract Since 2008 the number of individuals living in urban areas has surpassed that of rural areas and in the next decades urbanisation is expected to further increase, especially in developing countries. A country’s urbanisation depends both on the distribution of city sizes, describing the frac...

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Main Authors: Filippo Simini, Charlotte James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-07-01
Series:EPJ Data Science
Subjects:
Heaps’ law
Zipf’s law
Cities
Urbanisation
Scaling
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjds/s13688-019-0203-y

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