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.

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Schmidheiny, Kurt ; Südekum, Jens
Publisher:	Bonn : IZA
Subject:	city size distributions \| Zipf's law \| functional urban areas \| urban systems \| Stadtgröße \| City size \| Ballungsraum \| Metropolitan area \| Statistische Verteilung \| Statistical distribution \| Theorie \| Theory

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (10 S.) graph. Darst., Kt.
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. 9020
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/110756 [Handle]
Classification:	R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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