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Urban Concentration

Urban Concentration is a quantitative measure in urban geography that indicates the degree to which a country's urban population is centralized in the largest city or a few major cities, distinguishing it from broader patterns of urban distribution by focusing specifically on the dominance and skewness of population in primary urban centers.

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774

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426

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Publications

356

Diversity and Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When Does it Matter?

Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga · Urban Studies · 2000 · 740 citations

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Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism

Claude S. Fischer · American Journal of Sociology · 1975 · 729 citations

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Urban Diversity and Economic Growth

John M. Quigley · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 1998 · 714 citations · Full text

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Are European cities becoming dispersed?

Marjo Kasanko, José I. Barredo, Carlo Lavalle et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning · 2005 · 637 citations

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Urban development: theory, fact, and illusion

Choice Reviews Online · 1988 · 632 citations

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Authors

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  1. JV
    J. Vernon Henderson

    Brown University, United States

    7 publications · 730 citations

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  2. MF
    Marcel Fafchamps

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 184 citations

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  3. FS
    Forhad Shilpi

    World Bank Group, United States

    4 publications · 184 citations

    4

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  4. PA
    Paul A. Jargowsky

    The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

    3 publications · 195 citations

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  5. RV
    Ronald van Kempen

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    3 publications · 192 citations

    3

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Institutions

426

  1. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    7 h-index

    14 publications

    582 citations

  3. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    680 citations

  4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    335 citations

  5. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

    Beijing, China

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    313 citations

  6. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    238 citations

  7. UMR Géographie-cités

    Aubervilliers, France

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    296 citations

  8. Beijing Normal University

    Beijing, China

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    300 citations

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Venues

  1. Urban Studies

    18 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. Urban Geography

    13 publications · 592 citations

    11

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  3. Cities

    10 publications · 587 citations

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 8 publications · 249 citations

    8

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  5. Journal of Urban Economics

    8 publications · 1.4K citations

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