This study provides a systematic review of the existing literature on Zipf's law for city size
distribution. Existing empirical evidence suggests that Zipf's law is not always observable …

This article provides a new geospatial perspective on whether or not Zipf's law holds for all
cities or for the largest cities in the United States using a massive dataset and its computing …

As one of the six megalopolitan regions in the world, the Yangtze River Delta is one of the
most populated and developed regions of China. The spatial and temporal dynamic pattern …

Urban streets are hierarchically organized in the sense that a majority of streets are trivial,
while a minority of streets is vital. This hierarchy can be simply, but elegantly, characterized …

Two fundamental issues surrounding research on Zipf's law regarding city sizes are whether
and why this law holds. This paper does not deal with the latter issue with respect to why …

Cities are the dominant form of human settlements and their interaction with the global
environment presents great challenges for sustainability. This paper analyzes the evolution …

Zipf's law of city-size distributions can be expressed by three types of mathematical models:
one-parameter form, two-parameter form, and three-parameter form. The one-parameter and …

A debate has occurred concerning the laws of scale and the fractal nature of geographical
space. Biodiversity and pedodiversity studies show the emergence of fractal structures such …

A mere hyperbolic law, like the Zipf's law power function, is often inadequate to describe
rank-size relationships. An alternative theoretical distribution is proposed based on …

A fractal can be simply understood as a set or pattern in which there are far more small
things than large ones, for example, far more small geographic features than large ones on …