partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant 51008002);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(S2012040007176);the Research Fund for the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science(Grant 2011KB20);the Research Fund for the Harbin Institute of Technology(Grants HIT.NSRIF.2013100 and HIT.NSFIR.2011126);the Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy(DS20120901).
Given the differences between cities in the United States and China,and the changing structure of Chinese cities,this paper examines the viability of some basic predictions of the Muth-Mills model of urban spatial str...