González-Val, Rafael - In: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 39 (2012) 6, pp. 1119-1130
The methodology proposed by Ioannides and Overman (2003 <i>Regional Science and Urban Economics</i> <b>33</b> 127–137) is applied to estimate a local Zipf exponent using data for the entire 20th century of the complete distribution of cities (incorporated places) without any size restrictions in the US....