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
Authors:	Schmidheiny, Kurt ; Suedekum, Jens
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	functional urban areas \| Zipf's law \| city size distributions \| urban systems

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 9020
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	82448360X [GVK] hdl:10419/110756 [Handle] RePEc:iza:izadps:dp9020 [RePEc]
Classification:	R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Source:	EconStor

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