Research Article
A Hierarchical Allometric Scaling Analysis of Chinese Cities: 1991–2014
Figure 6
The hierarchical allometric scaling relationships between population size and area of built district of Chinese cities (examples). [Note. The small circles represent the largest city at the top class and the bottom cities at the lame-duck classes. The trend lines are based on all the data points rather than those within the scaling ranges.]
| (a) 1991 |
| (b) 1995 |
| (c) 2000 |
| (d) 2005 |
| (e) 2010 |
| (f) 2014 |