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Nov 23, 2019 · Geographer Mark Jefferson developed the law of the primate city to explain the phenomenon of huge cities that capture such a large proportion of a country's population as well as its economic activity. These primate cities are often, but not always, the capital cities of a country.
- Matt Rosenberg
Primate cities need not be capital cities: governments may establish a new capital city in an attempt to challenge the primacy of the largest city or provide more balanced growth. For example, in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam is still the primate city even though the capital was moved to Dodoma, a new city built to a
Indeed, Paris clearly is the primate city of France, dominating it as the capital, the cultural core, and the financial center. However, in terms of the magnitude of primacy, Paris is not the leader in Europe. Budapest’s degree of primacy in Hungary is greater than Paris’ degree of primacy in France.
- Joel Quam, Scott Campbell
- 2020
Apr 15, 2019 · Despite conceptual weaknesses and data flaws, primacy gave rise to much academic debate and a presumption of capital city bias without offering good theoretical and practical guidance on which to base policy intervention.
Capital cities may become significantly larger due to their advantage as the centers of governments.3 First, government agencies and workers are concentrated in capital cities. Second, since governments make laws and redistribute income, capital cities may attract significant lobbying activity. To the extent that
Nov 1, 2019 · In a later work, she considered circumstances that might lead to a country having a single “overwhelmingly important city and city‐region” (Jacobs Citation 1984, 172)–that is to say, a primate city–but instead of speaking of urban primacy or a capital, she called such a center an “elephant city.”
Mar 8, 2023 · The dominance of capital cities (urban primacy) is an enduring characteristic of Australian states. There has been limited empirical research examining the drivers of primacy in states despite some being extreme examples of the phenomenon, both in magnitude and scale.
