The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities
This article analyzes the dynamic of Brazilian system of cities illustrating the growth of Brazilian population through its own historical peculiarities like internal and international immigration, industrialization, metropolization. Urban hierarchy is revealed by means of the Zipf’s law and Gibrat’...
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Unité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-cités
2015-12-01
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| author | Cosmo Antonio Ignazzi |
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| description | This article analyzes the dynamic of Brazilian system of cities illustrating the growth of Brazilian population through its own historical peculiarities like internal and international immigration, industrialization, metropolization. Urban hierarchy is revealed by means of the Zipf’s law and Gibrat’s model is used to describe the mechanisms of urban growth. Deviations from this model were explained by studying the specific trajectories of five different classes of cities, on various time scales (from 1872 to 2010 and from 1960 to 2010). These deviations highlight different kinds of factors (political, economic, localization of resources and historical accidents) that shaped the Brazilian system during the last century. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bda182f02f2c400392baaf1877cfd0062024-04-04T09:33:05ZdeuUnité Mixte de Recherche 8504 Géographie-citésCybergeo1278-33662015-12-0110.4000/cybergeo.27349The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiaritiesCosmo Antonio IgnazziThis article analyzes the dynamic of Brazilian system of cities illustrating the growth of Brazilian population through its own historical peculiarities like internal and international immigration, industrialization, metropolization. Urban hierarchy is revealed by means of the Zipf’s law and Gibrat’s model is used to describe the mechanisms of urban growth. Deviations from this model were explained by studying the specific trajectories of five different classes of cities, on various time scales (from 1872 to 2010 and from 1960 to 2010). These deviations highlight different kinds of factors (political, economic, localization of resources and historical accidents) that shaped the Brazilian system during the last century.https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/27349spatial autocorrelationurban hierarchyGibrattrajectoriesurbanization/urbanisationZipf’s law |
| spellingShingle | Cosmo Antonio Ignazzi The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities Cybergeo spatial autocorrelation urban hierarchy Gibrat trajectories urbanization/urbanisation Zipf’s law |
| title | The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities |
| title_full | The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities |
| title_fullStr | The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities |
| title_short | The Brazilian Urban System: the trajectories of Brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities |
| title_sort | brazilian urban system the trajectories of brazilian cities between general dynamics and specific peculiarities |
| topic | spatial autocorrelation urban hierarchy Gibrat trajectories urbanization/urbanisation Zipf’s law |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/cybergeo/27349 |
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