Planned Economic Development and Loglinearity in the Rank-Size Distribution of Urban Systems: The Soviet Experience

Jean Mirucki ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Maria Mirucki

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Abstract: In this paper, the city rank-size hypothesis is tested for the urban system of the USSR and the Republic of Ukraine using (1) census data for 1897,1926, 1939, 1959, 1970 and 1979, (2)subgrouping each census year in 3 categories: largest cities (rank 1-5), middle-sized cities (ranl 6-50) and smallest cities (rank higher than 50), in addition to the whole sample. Following the interpretation of the previous results, the relative changes in the ratios of the city distribution slope values from both systems are then observed and analysed for each of the specific group of cities.

Keywords: city distribution; urban system; middle-sized cities; planned economy; census data; Ukraine; USSR; rank-size hypothesis; soviet urban system; city growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986-04, Revised 1985-10
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