Research Article

Zipf's Law, Hierarchical Structure, and Cards-Shuffling Model for Urban Development

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Hierarchical structure as a knowledge link between the apriori-ordered network and the random distribution of actual cities (the first four classes). (a)Random distribution. (b) Hierarchy. (c) Ordered network.
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