Impact of economic development on regional structure of urban systems in India

Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development: Volume II: Urban Development

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 209-228

  Dahiya, Bhawan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Economic development; Primate city; Urban agglomerations; Urban system; Urbanization; Zipf s rank size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957102586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9786-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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