TY - RPRT AU - Schmidheiny, Kurt AU - Suedekum, Jens TI - The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas PY - 2015/Apr/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 9020 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9020 AB - 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. KW - urban systems KW - city size distributions KW - Zipf's law KW - functional urban areas ER -