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Title: | Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800) |
Author: | González-Val, Rafael |
Keywords: | Economia matemàtica Riquesa Història de l'urbanisme Mathematical economics Wealth History of city planning |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Publisher: | Institut d’Economia de Barcelona |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IEB16/08] |
Abstract: | This paper analyses the evolution of the European urban system from a long-term perspective (from 1300 to 1800) considering the historical data set of Bairoch et al. (1988). Using the method recently proposed by Clauset et al. (2009), a Pareto-type city size distribution (power law) is rejected from 1300 to 1600. A power law is a plausible model for the city size distribution only in 1700 and 1800, although the log-normal distribution is another plausible alternative model that we cannot reject. Moreover, random growth of cities is rejected using parametric and non-parametric methods. The results reveal a clear pattern of convergent growth in all periods. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ieb.ub.edu/2012022157/ieb/ultimes-publicacions |
It is part of: | IEB Working Paper 2016/08 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/112721 |
Appears in Collections: | IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers |
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