Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/124633 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
55th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "World Renaissance: Changing roles for people and places", 25-28 August 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
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: 
Conference Paper

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