Using two comprehensive datasets on population of cities (1800-2000) and metropolitan areas (1960-2000) for a large set … of countries, I present three new empirical facts about the evolution of city growth. First, the distribution of cities …'s fastest growing cities tends to increase over time. Finally, this rank grows faster in periods of rapid growth in urban …

population data. The dataset contains over 1,500 cities covering 43 economies of Asia and the Pacific from 1992 to 2016. With the …, relations between urbanization and economic growth, evolution of urban systems, primate cities, testing Zipf's law and Gibrat …

population data. The dataset contains over 1,500 cities covering 43 economies of Asia and the Pacific from 1992 to 2016. With the …, relations between urbanization and economic growth, evolution of urban systems, primate cities, testing Zipf's law and Gibrat …

The paper estimates the political connection premium for Italian cities tracked during the second half of the 1900s … politicians remained in charge for a very long time. We compare connected cities - small areas surrounding birthplaces of both … politically connected cities gained a population premium of 8% over 40 years. When the connection ends, the difference in growth …

Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average … the largest global cities in developing economies would be at least one-third smaller on average without their tall … 12,877 cities worldwide, a triple difference identification strategy. Quantification using a canonical urban model …

Iberian Peninsula, on the population of its most important cities. The almost four centuries of Reconquest offer a “quasi … cities even after controlling for a large set of country and city-specific geographical and economic indicators, as well as … relative size of Iberian cities before the Reconquest were more important determinants of the fate of these cities than the …

The paper estimates the political connection premium for Italian cities tracked during the second half of the 1900s … politicians remained in charge for a very long time. We compare connected cities - small areas surrounding birthplaces of both … politically connected cities gained a population premium of 8% over 40 years. When the connection ends, the difference in growth …

Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average … the largest global cities in developing economies would be at least one-third smaller on average without their tall … 12,877 cities worldwide, a triple difference identification strategy. Quantification using a canonical urban model …

Iberian Peninsula, on the population of its most important cities. The almost four centuries of Reconquest offer a "quasi … cities even after controlling for a large set of country and city-specific geographical and economic indicators, as well as … relative size of Iberian cities before the Reconquest were more important determinants of the fate of these cities than the …

-natural" experiment. The Reconquista dramatically decreased the population of the three main cities of the Moorish Caliphate - Granada …, Cordoba, and Seville. This represents a very particular shock in the sense that these were cities with a vast majority of … show that the effect of the Reconquista on both the relative size of these three cities was indeed dramatic and that it …