title: Interurban migration and the dynamics of a system of cities:  1. The stochastic framework with an application to the French urban system.
abstract: "A stochastic framework for the modelling of interurban migration is presented.  The model is an extension of a recently developed master-equation approach to interregional migration.  The population dynamics of the French urban system, described by a set of 78 cities, is investigated within the period 1954-82.  The importance of synergy effects (self-reinforcing collective effects) as well as socioeconomic macrovariables for the understanding of urban dynamics becomes obvious. A forecasting of urban dynamics...[up to the year 2002 confirms] this result and [gives] further insight into the nested structure of urban systems."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005602:France; D005843:Geography; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Europe; France; Geographic Factors; Mediterranean Countries; Migration; Migration, Internal; Models, Theoretical; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Spatial Distribution; Urban Population; Urban Spatial Distribution--changes; Western Europe