Delgado, Ana Paula; Godinho, Isabel Maria - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2006
In this paper we study the evolution of the Portuguese urban system from 1864 to 2001. We apply the rank-size model and use rank-size estimates to describe the evolution of city-size hierarchy. NonParetian behavior of the distribution is examined by adding a quadratic term to the basic equation...
