@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp9020, author={Schmidheiny, Kurt and Suedekum, Jens}, title={The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas}, year={2015}, month={Apr}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={9020}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9020}, 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={urban systems;city size distributions;Zipf's law;functional urban areas}, }