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.
Schmidheiny, K. & Suedekum, J. (2015). The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas. IZA Discussion Paper, 9020.
Chicago
Kurt Schmidheiny and Jens Suedekum. "The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas." IZA Discussion Paper, No. 9020 (2015).
Harvard
Schmidheiny, K. and Suedekum, J., 2015. The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas. IZA Discussion Paper, 9020.
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