Struktur und Entwicklung des Städtesystems in den Kleinstaaten Zentralamerikas und ihre Bedeutung für den regionalen Entwicklungsprozeß

Abstract: After a short introduction showing the significance of urbanization and socio-economic development, the spatial distribution and recent growth of cities in Central America is outlined, considering the individual historical, geographical and political aspects (cf. Fig.1). This poses the question of basic characteristics of the structure and development of city systems in small countries and of their impact on regional development. Census population figures for cities of more than 3000 inhabitants are carefully analysed and arranged in a comparable way. Based upon these statistics, rank-size diagrams are plotted for empirical city distributions and hypothetical graphs according to ZIPF and PARETO (cf. Fig. 4-7). The city size distributions are discussed and compared with the results of similar studies. The findings show the expected primate distributions for small developing countries, but they do not give any hints that with proceeding development primacy gives way to a more regular.... https://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view/1957

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: Struktur und Entwicklung des Städtesystems in den Kleinstaaten Zentralamerikas und ihre Bedeutung für den regionalen Entwicklungsprozeß ; volume:35 ; number:4 ; year:1981 ; Erdkunde ; 35, Heft 4 (1981)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Nuhn, Helmut

Further information

• DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.1981.04.06
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2410291047257.195822669110
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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