The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas

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. •We analyze the first data set on consistently defined func...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Economics letters 2015-08, Vol.133, p.10-13
Hauptverfasser: Schmidheiny, Kurt, Suedekum, Jens
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cities
City size distributions
Comparative analysis
Eastern Europe
Functional urban areas
Law
Size
Social policy
Studies
U.S.A
Urban areas
Urban development
Urban systems
Western Europe
Zipf's Law
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung: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. •We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe.•We compare the European to the US urban system.•City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law.•The largest cities in Europe are “too small” to follow Zipf’s law.
ISSN:0165-1765
1873-7374
DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.013