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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5335
Number of pages: 11
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9020
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Posted: 11 May 2015
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Date Written: April 30, 2015
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.
Keywords: city size distributions, Zipf’s law, functional urban areas, urban systems
JEL Classification: R110, R120
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Schmidheiny, Kurt and Suedekum, Jens, The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas (April 30, 2015). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5335, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2603597 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2603597
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