The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.

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Year of publication:	2015-04
Authors:	Schmidheiny, Kurt ; Suedekum, Jens
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	functional urban areas \| Zipf's law \| city size distributions \| urban systems

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13. Number 9020 12 pages
Classification:	R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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