Gabaix, Xavier; Ioannides, Yannis M. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2341-2378). 2004
We review the accumulated knowledge on city size distributions and determinants of urban growth. This topic is of interest because of a number of key stylized facts, including notably Zipf's law for cities (which states that the number of cities of size greater than S is proportional to 1/ S )...