The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

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Journal: Economics Letters

Year: 2015

Volume: 133

Issue: C

Pages: 10-13

Authors (2)

Schmidheiny, Kurt (Centre for Economic Policy Res...) Suedekum, Jens (Heinriche-Heine-Universität Dü...)

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Abstract

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.

The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

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