Lognormal city size distribution and distance

Rafael González-Val

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Abstract: This paper analyses whether the size distribution of nearby cities is lognormally distributed by using a distance-based approach. We use data from three different definitions of US cities in 2010, considering all possible combinations of cities within a 300-mile radius. The results indicate that support for the lognormal distribution decreases with distance, although the lognormal distribution cannot be rejected in most of the cases for distances below 100 miles.

Keywords: space; city size distribution; distance-based approach; lognormal distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C12 C14 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-04
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