Rank-Size Distribution and Primate City Characteristics in India and It’s Relationship with Economic Development: A Spatio-Temporal analysis of four Indian states (West-bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh)
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 9
Abstract
Geographer who have an aspire to examine the relationship between numbers and size of settlement put forth their very own principle by using set up their own assumption about the real world to suit their analysis and reasoning for explained and proved what they are wanted, then testing it against reality. The concept of city-size distribution has riveted the attention of urban geographer form twentieth century .The existence of three types of city-size distributions has been noted in the literature on city-size distribution and settlement system. These are central place, rank-size and primate city distributions. This paper is primarily focused on last two, law of primate city and rank-size rule distribution both are the hot topics in urban geography measuring the trend in urbanization, as we are try to classify and grouping the cities of a nation or a state or some time globally to measure the trend of urbanization, dependency of main town of nation or a state in its economic, social and political life. present paper try to emphasis on contrast look at the Rank size distribution cautioned by Zipf (1941) and implicit in the earlier suggestion Jefferson (1939) of the existence of primate city in Indian context with example of four selected states of India for find out their trend of urbanization and relationship between city size distribution and Economic development at regional level. Keywords: Rank-Size Rule, Primate City, urbanization, Economic Development, Regional level.
Authors and Affiliations
Sanu Dolui
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