Concept information
Preferred term
primate city
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]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/primate_city
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