cities: historical overviews
type: Concept
narrower: primate city

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: primate city

primate city
type: Concept
broader: cities: historical overviews
definition: A primate city is the largest and most dominant city in a country or region and often functions also as a financial or political center. In the 1930s, the geographer Mark Jefferson developed the law of the primate city to explain the phenomenon of cities that capture a large proportion of a country's population as well as its economic activity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Primate City]