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

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 ; Suedekum, Jens
Institutions:	CESifo
Subject:	city size distributions \| Zipf’s law \| functional urban areas \| urban systems

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	CESifo Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 5335
Classification:	R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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