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Article: One country, two “urban” systems: focusing on bimodality in China’s city-size distribution
Title | One country, two “urban” systems: focusing on bimodality in China’s city-size distribution |
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Authors | |
Keywords | C10 C53 O18 R12 R23 |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Citation | Annals of Regional Science, 2017, v. 59, n. 2, p. 427-452 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany. In this study, we demonstrate the existence of bimodality in China’s city-size distribution and develop an urban-growth forecast model that incorporates this bimodality. Main data for our analysis are 0. 25 ∘ × 0. 25 ∘ population density grids for the past 32 years, created from China’s official census data and county-level statistics. Our results show that the mixture of two Gaussian distributions outperforms unimodal distributions in explaining China’s historic urban-growth patterns, suggesting that the conventional unitary urban-hierarchy assumption lacks ground in China’s context. We also find that the higher-density mixture component increasingly dominates the entire distribution, and this gradual transition toward a unimodal city-size distribution is partly related to increased domestic population mobility. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/251871 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.2 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.612 |
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dc.contributor.author | Li, Xin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Nam, Kyung-Min | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-29T02:21:35Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-29T02:21:35Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Annals of Regional Science, 2017, v. 59, n. 2, p. 427-452 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0570-1864 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/251871 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany. In this study, we demonstrate the existence of bimodality in China’s city-size distribution and develop an urban-growth forecast model that incorporates this bimodality. Main data for our analysis are 0. 25 ∘ × 0. 25 ∘ population density grids for the past 32 years, created from China’s official census data and county-level statistics. Our results show that the mixture of two Gaussian distributions outperforms unimodal distributions in explaining China’s historic urban-growth patterns, suggesting that the conventional unitary urban-hierarchy assumption lacks ground in China’s context. We also find that the higher-density mixture component increasingly dominates the entire distribution, and this gradual transition toward a unimodal city-size distribution is partly related to increased domestic population mobility. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Annals of Regional Science | - |
dc.subject | C10 | - |
dc.subject | C53 | - |
dc.subject | O18 | - |
dc.subject | R12 | - |
dc.subject | R23 | - |
dc.title | One country, two “urban” systems: focusing on bimodality in China’s city-size distribution | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00168-017-0838-1 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85021772092 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 274047 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 59 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 427 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 452 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1432-0592 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000410114000007 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0570-1864 | - |