Physical Review Letters · 1998 · 215 citations · 3 references
Social SciencesUrban StudiesSpatial StatisticsUrban DemographyCity SizeDistribution AnalysisPopulation DistributionUrban Spatial DistributionUrban Spatial StructureInteraction ModelingPopulation AggregationPopulation Distribution ModelsUrban Interaction PatternsUrban Population DistributionUrban Scaling LawsZipf's Law In Cities
We present a general approach to explain the Zipf's law of city distribution. If the simplest interaction (pairwise) is assumed, individuals tend to form cities in agreement with the well-known statistics.
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Yi Zhang, Maurizio Serva, M. I. Polikarpov · Journal of Statistical Physics · 1990 · 55 citations