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

Kurt Schmidheiny and Jens Suedekum

ERSA conference papers from European Regional Science Association

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: 2015-10
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Journal Article: The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas (2015)
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