Suggested Sources for a Term Paper on Primate Cities

Alonso-Villar, Olga (2001), “Large Metropolises in the Third World: An Explanation”, Urban Studies v38, n8 (July 2001): 1359-1371. 

Henderson, Vernon (2002), “Urbanization in Developing Countries”, World Bank Research Observer v17, n1 (Spring 2002): 89-112.

Henderson, J. Vernon and H. Wang (2007), “Urbanization and city growth: The role of institutions”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 37, pp 283-313. (Consider only pp 283-287 and pp.308-309).

Itoh, Ryo, (2009), “Dynamic control of rural-urban migration”, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 66, pp 196-202. (Consider only Introduction, pp. 196-197 and Concluding Remaks, pp. 201.)

Poertes, A. and B. Roberts, (2005), “The Free Market City: Latin American Urbanization in the Years of the Neoliberal Experiment”, Studies in Comparative Economic Development, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp 43-82.

van der Ploeg, F. and S. Poelhekke, (2008), “Globalization and the rise of mega-cities in the developing world”, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Vol. 1, pp 477-501.

Puga, Diego (1998), “Urbanization Patterns: European versus Less Developed Countries”, Journal of Regional Science v38, n2 (May 1998): 231-252. [Omit pp. 234-246.]

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Zipf’s Law

Benguigui, L. and E. Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, (2011), “The end of a paradigm: is Zipf’s law universal?”, Journal of Geographic Systems, Vol. 13, pp 87-100. (Consider only pp 87-93 and 97-98.)

Gan, L.; Li, D. and Song, S.(2006), “Is the Zipf law spurious in explaining city-size distributions?”, Economics Letters, Vol. 92, pp 256-262. (Consider only, pp 256-257 and pp 262.)

Gonzalez-Val, R., (2010), “Deviations from Zipf’s Law for American Cities: An Empirical Examination”, Urban Studies, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp 1017-1035.

Nitsch, V., (2005), “Zipf zipped”, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 57, pp 86-100.

Soo. K. (2005), “Zipf’s Law for cities: a cross-country investigation”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 35, pp239-263.

Ye, X. and Y. Xie, (2012), “Re-examination of Zipf’s law and urban dynamic in China: a regional approach”, Annual of Regional Science, Vol. 49, pp. 135-156. (Consider only ppp 135-139 and pp. 154-155.)

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