%0 Report %A Schmidheiny, Kurt %A Suedekum, Jens %T The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas %D 2015 %8 2015 Apr %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 9020 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9020 %X 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. %K urban systems %K city size distributions %K Zipf's law %K functional urban areas