Kangaroos, Cities and Space: A First Approach to the Australian Urban System (2008#15)
Publication Type:
UnpublishedSource:
(2008)Other Number:
R11Keywords:
Australian urban system; Zipf’s Law; Gibrat’s Law; ESDAAbstract:
Australia conforms a unique urban system. This paper examines the
Australian urban system using data for urban centres and localities in 1996
and 2001. A summary and a basic descriptive analysis of the database is
provided, followed by an examination of whether the system follows Zipf’s
and Gibrat’s laws. The latter is found to hold for all but one of the especifiactions
used while the former does not seem to apply. A Exploratory
Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) as well as a confirmatory analysis are carried
out to analyize the spatial dimension of city size and growth, finding
no relation for the former but a significant one for the latter.
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