Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110844 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 5335
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
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.
Subjects: 
city size distributions
Zipf’s law
functional urban areas
urban systems
JEL: 
R11
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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