This book describes all aspects of quantitative approaches to urban population growth, ranging from measures and empirical results such as the famous Zipf law, to the mathematical description of their evolution.
Urbanization is a fundamental process in human history and is increasingly affecting our environment and society. Although cities have existed for centuries, describing and controlling urbanization has always been difficult and still is: cities are continuously changing over time in a non-homogeneous fashion that has puzzled historians, geographers, philosophers, economists, urbanists, engineers, mathematicians and physicists. In particular, one of the most debated issues of urban studies has been the question of urban population growth. How do cities appear and disappear, grow or decline? Why do we observe a hierarchy of cities from small to large and not a typical city size ? These questions are not only relevant for census purposes. The population size of the city is an important determinant for most of urban issues: land management, congestion, public transport planning, economic growth, innovation incentives, food and good supply and climate-change adaptation. A sound understanding of population growth processes is an inescapable path for a good monitoring of city planning. This book describes all aspects of quantitative approaches to urban population growth, ranging from measures and empirical results to the mathematical description of their evolution. It will be of interest to researchers working on quantitative aspect of cities and from many different disciplines such as quantitative geography, spatial economics, geomatics, urbanism and transportation, physics, or applied mathematics. This book will also be of interest to graduate students and researchers entering the field or interested in quantitative studies of urban systems.
This book describes all aspects of quantitative approaches to urban population growth, ranging from measures and empirical results such as the famous Zipf law, to the mathematical description of their evolution.
There is a tendency in human nature to ultimately become precisely like that which we imagine or image ourselves as being . . . Imaging is positive thinking carried one step further. ' Norman Vincent Peale in the Introduction. THIS BOOK CAN TRANSFORM YOUR SELF-IMAGE FOREVER. We are what we think and while a positive attitude of mind can literally change your life, a negative frame of mind will ultimately destroy you. Norman Vincent Peale, one of the most inspirational writers of our time shows you how to create a positive future and explains how the practise of 'imaging' can help you to: * solve your money problems * outwit worry * banish loneliness and tension * improve your health * deepen your faith and self-belief * relate to others more successfully.
In over 60 years of writing, broadcasting and speaking to live audiences all over the world, Dr. Peale has won millions of enthusiastic followers and friends from corporate executives to artists, entertainers and ordinary working people. His watershed classic The Power of Positive Thinking has sold more than 15 million copies and Dr. Peale has written over thirty additional works of uplifting inspiration. Dr. Peale is married to Ruth Stafford Peale and together they continue to spread the message of positive thinking worldwide.
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