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The Agglomeration Process in Urban Growth
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This article is published in Urban Studies.The article was published on 1972-10-01. It has received 63 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Economies of agglomeration.read more
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Are Chinese Cities Too Small
TL;DR: This paper found that urban agglomeration benefits are high and that real incomes per worker rise sharply with increases in city size from a low level and then decline very slowly past the peak.
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Urban evolution in the USA
Duncan Black,Vernon Henderson +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the size distribution of US cities over the period 1900-1990 and examined the degree and determinants of mobility of individual cities within this distribution, asking to what extent cities are moving up and down in the distribution and how this movement is influenced by cities' geographic characteristics.
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Geography and development
TL;DR: The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, including the coexistence of economic development and underdevelopment as discussed by the authors, and this unevenness is also manifest within countries and within metropolitan concentrations of activity.
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Cities and development
TL;DR: This paper starts with a “primer” on what the authors know about the conceptual and empirical links between development and urbanization, and investigates the evolution of spatial income inequality under massive rural-urban migration.
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Urbanization in developing countries
TL;DR: In a mature system of cities, economic activity is more spread out as mentioned in this paper and standardized manufacturing production tends to be de-concentrated into smaller and medium-size metropolitan areas, whereas production in large metropolitan areas focuses on services, research and development, and nonstandardized manufacturing.
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A Service Classification of American Cities
TL;DR: A Service Classification of American Cities as mentioned in this paper was the first attempt to classify cities in the United States, and it was based on the following categories: urban, suburban, and rural.