Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5058610 | Economics Letters | 2015 | 4 Pages |
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.
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Authors
Kurt Schmidheiny, Jens Suedekum,