Size and resources driven migration resulting in a power-law distribution of cities

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 352, Issue 2-4, 2005, Pages 612-628

  Semboloni, Ferdinando ^a   Leyvraz, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cities distribution; Migration; Power law

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); INTEGRATION; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SALES; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CITIES DISTRIBUTION; MIGRATION; POWER LAW; UNIFICATION;

URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 18144429876     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.12.066     Document Type: Article

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