A Hierarchical Allometric Scaling Analysis of Chinese Cities: 1991–2014
Table 1
The examples of reconstructed self-similar hierarchies of Chinese cities in 2000 and 2010.
Class
2000
2010
City number
Average size
Average area
City number
Average size
Average area
1
1
1136.8200
549.5800
1
2301.9100
998.7500
2
2
793.6650
369.8250
2
1360.8450
1059.6550
3
4
496.3750
290.7500
4
657.1000
748.2450
4
8
317.3288
161.8475
8
366.0988
392.9913
5
16
205.6356
118.5538
16
226.9919
276.7556
6
32
146.9441
67.7275
32
129.5641
180.1488
7
64
107.9066
44.9964
64
74.8284
88.7334
8
128
65.8054
34.6786
128
41.4015
53.6396
9
256
26.5613
21.5523
256
21.1980
27.7446
10
154
9.4431
11.5560
145
10.3430
15.5314
Note. These results are similar to the results based on urban census data, which were displayed in Chen [29], but there are subtle differences. Unfortunately, we have no datasets for urbanized area of Chinese cities.
