Giesen, Kristian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively defined Census places or economically … endogenous city creation. City sizes converge to a DPLN distribution in this model, which is much better in line with the data … than previous urban growth frameworks that predict a lognormal or a Pareto city size distribution (Zipf's law). -- Zipf …