Many large cities are found at locations with certain first nature advantages. Yet, those exogenous locational features may not be the most potent forces governing the spatial pattern of cities. In ...

The growth of large cities is often attributed to their proximity to exogenous, first-nature advantages. This column uses data on 450 Japanese cities to show that in fact, the regularity of ...

Awuh, M.E. (2026) Spatial Clustering Patterns of Thermal Extremes over Epochs in Douala, Littoral Region of Cameroon.