GIESEN, Kristian; SÜDEKUM, Jens - In: Region et Developpement 36 (2012), pp. 107-126
We analyze the overall size distribution across all French settlements in the year 2008. The sizes of the largest French cities follow the famous Zipf's law fairly closely, with Paris being a notable outlier. However, for the overall city size distribution (CSD), Zipf's law is not a useful...