Sequential city growth in the usdoes age matter?
- Sánchez Vidal, María Eugenia
- González Val, Rafael
- Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet
Año de publicación: 2013
Número: 1
Tipo: Documento de Trabajo
Resumen
We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the parametric and nonparametric analysis of the population growth experienced by these new-born cities. Our results enable us to confirm that, when cities appear, they grow very rapidly and, as the decades pass, their growth slows or even falls into decline. This is consistent with the theoretical framework regarding mean reversion (convergence) in the steady state and with the theories of sequential city growth.