2009/5/21 Pranesh Prakash <the.solips...@gmail.com> > Additionally, I don't think Zipf's law holds well > for Indian cities. > > For "urban areas by population", the sink of all knowledge tells us: > Bombay 20,400,000 > Delhi 19,830,000 > Calcutta 15,250,000 > Madras 7,400,000 > Bangalore 7,030,000 > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population>
Maybe cultural and linguistic homogeneity is an assumption for the law to hold. I'm sure both Bombay and Delhi didn't grow in the same organic fashion as US cities might have due to such barriers which are far less in the US, not to mention more sophisticated urban planning. Kiran
