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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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9020

Classification
Wirtschaft
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Subject
functional urban areas
Zipf's law
city size distributions
urban systems

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schmidheiny, Kurt
Suedekum, Jens
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2015

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Schmidheiny, Kurt
  • Suedekum, Jens
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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