Applying the theories of Zipf's law, Gibrat's law, and scaling laws, the study first verified the universality of urban ...

Zipf’s law says a city’s population is inversely proportional to its rank in a group, so that the largest city will have twice the population of the second-largest one, three times that of the ...

Applying the theories of Zipf's law, Gibrat's law, and scaling laws, the study first verified the universality of urban system laws in African cities and then focused on their specificity and the ...

Zipf was known particularly for his statistical treatment of the frequency of word use. He had carried over his methods into the study of such diverse subjects as the size of cities and the ...

Japan has been experiencing an unprecedented inbound tourism boom, but initially, tourists were concentrated in major cities in the Kanto and Kansai ... rank order of municipalities and ascertain if ...