Threshold transitions in a regional urban system

Jorge García and Ahjond S. Garmestani

Vniversitas Económica, 2011, vol. 0, issue 0, No 8300, 17 pages

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the evolution of city size distributions over time in a regional urban system. This urban complex system is in constant flux with changing groups and city migration across existing and newly created groups. Using group formation as an emergent property, transition probabilities across the different groups were calculated. While short-term transition appears chaotic in the intermediate and lower rank groups, long-term transition across all rank groups reveals system structure over time.

Keywords: urban systems; complex systems; city size distributions; resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P00 R10 R12 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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