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| Steep and flat size distributions: |
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| Flat = all the settlements are about the same |
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| size |
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| Steep= there is one big settlements, no middle- |
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| sized ones, and a lot of small ones. This is also |
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| called “urban primacy” |
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| The lognormal and rank-size distributions. |
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| Rank-size: the second largest settlement is one |
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| half as large as the largest settlement, the third |
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| largest is one third as large, and so forth. |
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