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15 Απρ 2019 · “Primate city” has given ground to “megacity,” “world city,” and “global city” but the basic issues remain much the same, including the unreliability of statistics, the wide variation in urban and national contexts, and the lack of effective policy measures to improve spatial equality.
The example is the primate city, a concept that has adopted and so interdisciplinary in usage that its origin in modern geography if not totally forgotten. Geographer Mark Jefferson first stated the article, entitled "The Law of the Primate City," that appeared in the of April 1939.
Abstract Some cities, usually capitals, are disproportionate in size relative to the population of other cities and the national population. Jefferson's law of the primate city and Zipf's rank-size...
primate city Source: A Dictionary of Geography Author(s): Susan Mayhew. The largest city within a nation which dominates the country not solely in size—being more than twice as large as the second city, as in London and Birmingham, UK—but also in terms of influence. ... ...
15 Φεβ 2007 · A primate city usually refers to a city that is disproportionately large in terms of population size relative to other cities contained within a given geographically bounded area, such as a region, a nation, or even the globe.
LAW OF THE PRIMATE CITY 227. All over the world it is the Law of the Capitals4 that the largest city shall be supereminent, and not merely in size, but in national influence. How CITIES GROW. Cities grow by excess of births over deaths and by the attraction of opportunity for employment.
