Abstract
In the present work we study the relationship between population allocation and the combined effects of urban size and energy consumption, for two given areas and through a major part of the twentieth century. Along these lines a general application model is laid down which relates city-growth rates to initial inhabitants and to exosomatic energy increment, the deviations from it showing order in space and time, as shown in a series of maps which hint at unaccounted socioeconomic factors. The study of the maps by means of spectral analysis allows finding patterns which reinforce over time, in such a manner that spatial frequencies can be determined whose weight increases up so granting surface evolution estimation.
Highlights
The regressions can be considered as a way to quantifying the population’s distribution
Slopes correlate well with commercial primary energy increments to a 0.9 coefficient
This result couples demography to energy and posits the emergence of self-order
Our model’s unexplained deviations show continuity in space
The topography of the maps has been typified through the methodology exposed herein