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City Size, Economic Diversity, and Functional Type: The Canadian Case
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In this article, the authors reviewed features of existing methods, described two measures which are believed to meet certain features, and proposed two new measures to express industrial diversification in quantitative terms.Abstract:
It is widely accepted that increased city size brings greater industrial diversification. Nevertheless the results presented in studies which have tested this assertion are somewhat inconclusive, since doubts arise concerning the fitness of the methods used to express industrial diversification in quantitative terms. This paper reviews certain features of existing methods, describes two measures which are believed to meet certainread more
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