AP Human Geography / Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use Patterns and Processes
6.4 The Size and Distribution of Cities
Notes
- Rank-size rule: the nth largest city is 1/n the size of the largest.
- Primate city: much larger than the second-largest city (Paris, Bangkok).
- Central place theory (Christaller): hexagonal market areas; range and threshold.
- Gravity model: interaction depends on size and distance.
Practice
The largest city has 6 million people. Under the rank-size rule, the third largest has:
$\displaystyle \frac{6}{3}$.
The minimum number of customers a business needs is its:
Central place theory.
A primate city is:
Dominant city.
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