Information diffusion between Dutch cities : revisiting Zipf and Pred using a computational social science approach

Funding: This work was funded through a VIDI grant (452-14-004) provided by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientic Research (NWO), and through the researcher-in-residence program of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the national library of the Netherlands. ; News travels fast and far, and the general idea is that the spatial extent of news coverage has increased over time. Information flows are always involved in systems of interdependent cities. This is the reason why George Zipf and Allan Pred, both pioneers of the urban systems literature, were eager to obtain data on these relations to... Mehr ...