رصد وقياس الهيمنة للمدن والأقاليم الحضرية في العالم العربي: تحليل مقارن للدراسات السابقة

الملخص EN

The purpose of this is research to analyze a set of literature review focusing on population concentration, rank-size city, and development disparity issues.

hereas the research selected according to a set of criteria, the research main aims to monitor and analyze the phenomenon of urban primacy in a specific group of national urban systems from different countries, and analyzing its development through different period time and determine the extent of the primacy of the primate city.

to achieve this aim, the study of the methodology included three main axes.

the first axis is to identify the various concepts associated with the study, such as the concept of primacy, sustainable urban development, and the concept of development variance.

the second axis depends on defining the criteria for selecting a group of literature reviews, analyzing them, defining their objectives, methodology, statistic and the most important results.

then the third axis deals with making a comparative analysis of previous studies to elicit the importance of each study and its indicators than contribute to measuring the phenomenon quantitatively economic, social, and urban implications.

the study concluded that the phenomenon must be analyzed from several dimensions economic, social, cultural, and political.

accordingly, a model was built for the most important indicators that contribute to the analysis of the phenomenon from several dimensions.