A Century of the Evolution of the Urban System in Brazil

Matlaba, Valente José; Holmes, Mark J.; McCann, Philip; Poot, Jacques

doi:10.1111/rurd.12012

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“…Many authors have used this rank-size procedure; for example, Berry and Garrison (1958) show the cases of spatial hierarchy in Korea and Washington. In more recent years Pumain and Moriconi-Ebrard (1997) show the relevance of Zipf's law for a set of countries with data from 'Geopolis'; (2) Brakman et al (1999) and Mulder and de Groot (2008) study the case of the Nederlands; Benguigui and Blumenfeld-Lieberthal (2010) present findings from Israel; Rozenfeld et al (2011) test the Zipf relevance for American statistical metropolitan areas using a city clustering algorithm; and Matlaba et al (2011) study the size distribution of urban areas in Brazil.…”

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Did Zipf Anticipate Spatial Connectivity Structures?

Reggiani

Nijkamp

2015

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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An avalanche of empirical studies has addressed the validity of the rank-size rule (or Zipf's law) in a multicity context in many countries. Under which conditions (eg, sample size, spatial scale) this ‘law’ holds remains as yet largely underinvestigated, while spatial network constellations also deserve more attention. Against this background, we investigate the relationship between network connectivity and the rank-size rule (or Zipf's law) in an urban economic network constellation. In particular, we address the following methodological issues: (i) the (aggregate) behavioural foundation underlying the rank-size rule (Zipf's law) in the light of spatial-economic network theories (eg, entropy maximization, spatial interaction theory); (ii) the nature of the analytical relationship between social-spatial network analysis and the rank-size rule (Zipf's law). We argue that the rank-size rule is compatible with conventional economic foundations of spatial network models. We test the sensitivity of rank-size rules for changes in scale, functional forms, time periods, and connectivity structures. Our application uses an extensive spatiotemporal panel database on the evolution of the urban population in Germany. We test the relevance of the rank-size rule (Zipf's law), and—in parallel—the related ‘socioeconomic’ connectivity in these urban networks. In particular, we will show that Zipf's law (ie, with the rank-size coefficient equal to 1) is only valid under particular conditions of the sample size.

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Section: The Rank-size Rule For City-size Distributionmentioning

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Did Zipf Anticipate Spatial Connectivity Structures?

Reggiani

Nijkamp

2015

Environ Plann B Plann Des

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“…Ioannides and Skouras [31], among others, have argued that Pareto-Zipf's law seems to stand in force only in the tail of the data distribution. Matlaba et al [32] also provided such an "evidence that, at least for the analyzed case of Brazilian urban areas over a spectacularly wide period ), Zipf's law is clearly rejected. Soo [33] has also empirically shown that the size of Malaysian cities cannot be plotted according to such a rank-size rule, but a suitable collection of them can do it.…”

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Cross ranking of cities and regions: population versus income

Cerqueti¹,

Ausloos²

2015

J. Stat. Mech.

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This paper explores the relationship between the inner economical structure of communities and their population distribution through a rank-rank analysis of official data, along statistical physics ideas within two techniques. The data is taken on Italian cities. The analysis is performed both at a global (national) and at a more local (regional) level in order to distinguish "macro" and "micro" aspects. First, the rank-size rule is found not to be a standard power law, as in many other studies, but a doubly decreasing power law. Next, the Kendall τ and the Spearman ρ rank correlation coefficients which measure pair concordance and the correlation between fluctuations in two rankings, respectively, -as a correlation function does in thermodynamics, are calculated for finding rank correlation (if any) between demography and wealth. Results show non only global disparities for the whole (country) set, but also (regional) disparities, when comparing the number of cities in regions, the number of inhabitants in cities and that in regions, as well as when comparing the aggregated tax income of the cities and that of regions. Different outliers are pointed out and justified. Interestingly, two classes of cities in the country and two classes of regions in the country are found. "Common sense" social, political, and economic considerations sustain the findings. More importantly, the methods show that they allow to distinguish communities, very clearly, when specific criteria are numerically sound. A * Corresponding address: University of Macerata, Department of Economics and Law, via Crescimbeni 20, I-62100, Macerata, Italy.

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“…2 For details, see Gabaix and Ioannides (2004). Some examples of empirical works considering Brazil and/or the United States are Ruiz (2005), Matlaba et al (2013) and Chauvin et al (2017).…”

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A A comparative study of urban occupational structures: Brazil and United States

Scherer

Amaral²,

Folch

2019

Rev. bras. estud. popul.

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This paper compares the occupational structure of cities in Brazil and United States aiming to evaluate the extent to which the economic structure of these urban agglomerations is associated with the different stages of development, specifically when comparing a rich country with a developing one. Using a harmonized occupational database and microdata from the Brazilian 2010 Demographic Census and the U.S. American Community Survey (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012), results show that Brazilian cities have a stronger connection between population size, both with occupational structure and human capital distribution, than the one found for cities in the United States. These findings suggest a stronger primacy of large cities in Brazil's urban network and a more unequal distribution of economic activity across cities when compared to USA, indicating a strong correlation between development and occupational structure.

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A Century of the Evolution of the Urban System in Brazil

Cited by 12 publications

References 56 publications

Did Zipf Anticipate Spatial Connectivity Structures?

Did Zipf Anticipate Spatial Connectivity Structures?

Cross ranking of cities and regions: population versus income

A A comparative study of urban occupational structures: Brazil and United States

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