Arbeitspapier
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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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9020
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Wirtschaft
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
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functional urban areas
Zipf's law
city size distributions
urban systems
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Schmidheiny, Kurt
Suedekum, Jens
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2015
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Schmidheiny, Kurt
- Suedekum, Jens
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2015