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Quote: moving people to raw material distributes cities while moving raw materials to people unifies cities; e.g., product of rank-frequency is constant for U.S. cities in 1940

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One course [for optimizing production] is to move the population … materials to the persons … this is the Force of Diversification … The other course of economical action, which we … the population, with the result that all production … will live. … [p. 375] In Fig. 9-2 is presented the rank-frequency … The line drawn was calculated by least squares … [p. 376] Theoretically, this value means that the magnitudes … equal.   Google-1   Google-2

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