"Rapid development, a widening regional gap, and growing concentration of activities have characterized the Chinese economy since the reforms in the late 1970s. This paper examines the spatial disparities of the economic concentration in different stages of development from a geographic approach...

The aim of this paper is to study the relation between economic development and urban hierarchies?<np pagenum="302"/> evolutions in the Mediterranean from 1960 to 2000. The paper clearly demonstrates that the countries with a higher income per capita (France, Spain, Italy) have a less hierarchical city-size...

[fre] Si on observe encore une croissance rapide en 1972-1973, les années 1974-1977 correspondent à un freinage de l'activité économique. Comment les régions ont-elles traversé la crise? Outre un net ralentissement de l'évolution de l'emploi, surtout dans l'industrie, on observe une...