The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Kurt Schmidheiny and Jens Suedekum

No 5335, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

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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