This paper provides a different interpretation of resilience on the light of a very well known empirical regularities that is Gibrat's Law. Gibrat's Law is a rule stating that the growth of a given entity (city, firm, income and so on) is independent on its size. Resilience, instead, is a...

The urban structures between the Member States of the European Union is very different for historical, geographical, economic reasons. However, the population is spread across geographic areas in a way that, although continuously changing, is not possible to define as random. Indeed, countries...