S<sc>chaffar</sc> A. and D<sc>imou</sc> M. Rank-size city dynamics in China and India, 1981--2004, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. By using empirical evidence based on data from India and China between 1981 and 2004, this paper studies the dynamic patterns of urban hierarchies within the two most populated countries in the...

The aim of this article is to analyze the patterns of the Chinese urban growth from 1984 to 2004, a period of important economic, social and institutional changes within this country. This article follows a two-sequenced methodological path. First, it applies Ioannides et Overman's seminal work...

The main issue in this paper is cities’ size distribution and urban hierarchy. The aim of the paper is to study whether different regions or countries follow Zipf's law in the long term. By applying this analysis on the Balkan Peninsula, a region which has gone through a major political,...

Over the last decade, many researchers have focused on the study of different urban hierarchies and their evolution over time. These studies may or may not confirm Zipf’s law and emphasize the characteristics of urban growth. The question is then whether urban growth depends upon city-size or...