The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

Kurt Schmidheiny and Jens Suedekum

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 133, issue C, 10-13

Abstract: We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are “too small” to follow Zipf’s law.

Keywords: City size distributions; Zipf’s law; Functional urban areas; Urban systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.013

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