Nijkamp, P.; Reggiani, A. - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater … - 2012
An avalanche of empirical studies has addressed the validity of the rank-size rule (or Zipf’s law) in a multi-city context in many countries. City size in most countries seems to obey Zipf’s law, but the question under which conditions (e.g. sample size, spatial scale) this ‘law’ holds...