Question

Large cities are fewer in number and farther apart than medium-sized cities; medium-sized cites are fewer in number and farther apart than small cities. What theory accounts for the regularities of size and spacing of cities as market centers?

Answer 1

Answer:

Rank size rule of cities given George zipf

Explanation:

• It is a distribution of cities based on ranking their sizes as compared to others. This law states that there exists a remarkable regularity in the distribution size of cities and businesses, this ranking is also influenced by the population living in the cities.  

• Thus farther apart cities tend to have a smaller size and varying further as the spacing grows. The main cause that leads to the growth of cities is there power to attract customers like centers of economic growth.

• like a city with rank three would have one-third the population of a country's largest city, ans a rank four city would have one-fourth the population of the largest city.