The Structure of Urban Systems / / John Marshall.
As the world’s population is increasingly concentrated in urban centres, urban systems analysis has become a critical field of research – one that overlaps the traditional academic territories of geography, economics, and regional science. John Marshall defines urban systems analysis as a study of t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Fundamental concepts
- 2. World urbanization: a historical outline
- 3. Urban functions and the economic classification of cities
- 4. Industrial diversification
- 5. Central place theory: the spatial structure of local trade
- 6. Bridging the gap: techniques linking theory with observations
- 7. The problem of hierarchical structuring
- 8. A theory that failed: central places according to Lösch
- 9. Cities and long-distance trade: the mercantile model
- 10. The analysis of city growth rates
- 11. Rank-size relationships and population concentration
- References
- Index of cities
- Subject index