Berliant, Marcus; Watanabe, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Zipf’s law is one of the best-known empirical regularities of the city-size distribution. There is extensive research … network framework, the chance of observing extremes becomes higher than the Gaussian distribution predicts and therefore it … incorporate network structure into urban economic models and explains the city-size distribution as a result of transport cost …