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Why are Primate Cities More Prominent in Latin America and Africa than in Western Europe?

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  • Settlement Geography

A primate city is a country's leading city grown disproportionately large — more than twice its nearest rival — and dominant in economy, politics and culture together. Primacy is pervasive in Latin America and much of Africa and rare in Western Europe, and the contrast is not accidental: it follows from whether a country's urban…

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  • Defining Primacy Precisely
  • Why Latin America and Africa Are Primate
  • Colonial Extractive Urbanism
  • Post-Independence Centralisation
  • Rural Push and Cumulative Causation
  • Why Western Europe Escaped It
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