Zipf’s Law for Russian Cities: Analysis of New Indicators

At the present stage, urban economists widely use Zipf ’s law to assess the urban regional and national systems. Zipf ’s law or the rank–size rule is a pattern linking the population of a city with its place in the hierarchy of cities arranged in descending order depending on their size. Using Z...

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Main Authors: Svetlana N. Rastvortseva, Inna V. Manaeva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch 2020-09-01
Series:Экономика региона
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Online Access:https://www.economyofregion.com/data/jarticles/3310.pdf