Practice question · Select all that apply
What can the shape of a city-size distribution tell you?
Hints
- The distribution diagnoses how the economy is organised.
- It says nothing about wealth levels.
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- A. A rank-size fit suggests a mature, internally integrated system
- B. A missing middle suggests an economy built to extract to the coast
- D. A primate city suggests a system organized around one centre
Why
The distribution is a diagnostic of how an economy is wired. What it cannot tell you is anything about wealth, a huge primate city can be poor, and frequently is.
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