This study tackles the description of the size distribution of urban employment centers or, in other words, the size of areas within cities with significantly high densities of workers. Certainly, there exists a branch of urban economics that has paid substantial attention to urban employment...

In this paper we consider urban spatial structure in US cities using a multidimensional approach. We select six key variables (commuting costs, density, employment dispersion and concentration, land-use mix, polycentricity, and size) from the urban literature and define measures to quantify...