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...
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| description | 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. |
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