A dynamic model for city size distributi
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Lucien Benguigui; Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We present a growth model for a system of cities. This model recovers not only Zipf's law but also other kinds of city size distributions (CSDs). A new positive exponent a, which yields Zipf's law only when equal to 1, was introduced. We define three classes of CSD depending on the value of a: large