On locational commonalities of largest cities worldwide

Boris A. Portnov

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-43694-0_2

On locational commonalities of largest cities worldwide

Boris A. Portnov

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management

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Abstract

The chapter discusses whether largest cities share common geographic attributes, as opposed to urban localities of smaller size. As the study reveals, the largest cities of countries are rarely places of geographic extremes; they are seldom found at high elevations, far away from the seashore, or in extremely cold or extremely hot areas. This location ordinariness of main cities may be, in fact, essential to their centrality, by making them attractive to many.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Innovations in Urban and Regional Systems: Contributions from GIS&T, Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	23-48
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030436940
ISBN (Print)	9783030436926
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43694-0_2
State	Published - 1 Jan 2020

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Keywords

Geographic attributes
Largest cities of countries
Locational patterns
Population size

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
General Business, Management and Accounting
General Computer Science
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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