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Urbanism

Why Is Dallas About Half The Size of Chicago?

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Welcome to Zipf’s Law, which I don’t pretend to understand:

The law claims that the number of people in a city is inversely proportional to the city’s rank among all cities.  In other words, the biggest city is about twice the size of the second biggest city, three times the size of the third biggest city…

I leave it to our more statistically minded FrontBurnervians to explain.

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