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The Morphology of Urban Agglomerations for Developing Countries: A Case Study with China Kausik Gangopadhyay∗ Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, IIMK Campus P.O., Kozhikode 673570, India 0 1 B. Basu† 0 Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit 2 Indian Statistical Institute n Kolkata-700108, India a J Abstract 6 In this article, the relationship between two well-accepted empirical propositions regarding the dis- ] tribution of population in cities, namely, Gibrat’s law and Zipf’s law, are rigorously examined using h the Chinese census data. Our findings are quite in contrast with the most of the previous studies p performed exclusively for developed countries. This motivates us to build a general environment - c to explain the morphology of urban agglomerations both in developed and developing countries. A o dynamic process of job creation generates a particular distribution for the urban agglomerations s and introduction of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in this abstract environment shows that the . s empirical observations are in good agreement with the proposed model. c i s y h p I. INTRODUCTION [ 1 Social phenomenon is a pertinent to