How to determine city hierarchies and spatial structure of a megaregion?

Yanyan Gu, Run Shi, Yan Zhuang, Qingquan Li, Yang Yue. How to determine city hierarchies and spatial structure of a megaregion?. Geo-spatial Information Science, 27(2):276-288, March 2024. [doi]

@article{GuSZLY24,
  title = {How to determine city hierarchies and spatial structure of a megaregion?},
  author = {Yanyan Gu and Run Shi and Yan Zhuang and Qingquan Li and Yang Yue},
  year = {2024},
  month = {March},
  doi = {10.1080/10095020.2022.2161425},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2022.2161425},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/GuSZLY24},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  journal = {Geo-spatial Information Science},
  volume = {27},
  number = {2},
  pages = {276-288},
}