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

Kurt Schmidheiny;Jens Suedekum

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.

Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Schmidheiny, Kurt ; Südekum, Jens
Publisher:	München : CESifo
Subject:	city size distributions \| Zipf's law \| functional urban areas \| urban systems \| Stadtgröße \| City size \| Ballungsraum \| Metropolitan area \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries

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