Population Redistribution And Changes In The Size Density Slope |
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Authors: | G Edward Stephan Karen H Stephan |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, Western Washington University, 98225, Bellingham, Washington
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Abstract: | As regional population density increases territorial units tend to subdivide. For maximum societal time-efficiency the slope relating the logarithms of unit areas to those of unit densities should be -2/3. When boundaries become fixed, however, observed slopes tend to drift toward a value of zero. It was earlier hypothesized that such slope-erosion was due to increasing concentration of the population. Historical data for the primary political divisions of ten nations shows general support for the hypothesis. |
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