City size distributions are driven by each generation's stay-vs-leave decision

Throughout history most young adults have chosen to live where their parents did while a smaller number moved away. This is sufficient, by proof and simulation, to account for the well-known power law distributions of city sizes. The model needs only two parameters, $r$ = the probability that a chil...

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1. Verfasser:	Spencer, Robin W
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Physics - Physics and Society
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