The return of Zipf: Towards a further understanding of the rank-size distribution

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 183-213

  Brakman, Steven ^a   Garretsen, Harry ^b   Van Marrewijk, Charles ^c   Van Den Berg, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION THEORY; MODEL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 0032998879     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9787.00129     Document Type: Article

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