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A primate city distribution is a rank-size distribution that has one very large city with many much smaller cities and towns and no intermediate-sized urban centers, creating a statistical king effect.
- The Primate City Theory
- Role Played by Primate Cities
- Primate Cities Around The Globe
Geographer Mark Jefferson developed the ideology of the primate city in 1939. Jefferson defined a primate city as the city that is twice as large as the next city and twice as significant. Primate cities are the face of the country, they tend to host international events and develop better infrastructure that other cities or town. Jefferson determi...
Primate cities play a crucial role in the domestic and global economies. Economist Bert F. Hoselitz urged that urbanization does not necessarily have to be generative of economic growth and sited colonial cities that were enclaved and remained stagnant. Revenues generated from trade, accumulation of capital, agriculture and other economic activitie...
However, not all countries have primate cities. The United States, China, Germany, Canada, India, South Africa, and Brazil, are among large economies without such cities. Canada’s capital city is overshadowed by Toronto and Montreal which are considered global cities, while Germany boasts of Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, and Dresden. In the US, the capi...
Jan 17, 2020 · It refers to a city that is greater than two times the next largest city in a nation (or contains over one-third of a nation's population). The primate city is usually very expressive of the national culture and often the capital city.
- Matt Rosenberg
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
The dominance of primate cities has both advantages and disadvantages to the country’s development. On the one hand, primate cities have the potential to attract and retain a significant number of companies, investments, and skilled workers, contributing to economic growth and social development.
The primate city dominates the country’s urban life in all ways. Ask someone to name a city in France and their first thought will be Paris. Indeed, Paris clearly is the primate city of France, dominating it as the capital, the cultural core, and the financial center.
This column presents another type of the question Why Geography: the conceptual contributions of modern intellectual analysis. The example is the primate city, a concept that has adopted and so interdisciplinary in usage that its origin in modern geography if not totally forgotten.
