We study the effects of a decrease in inter-city transport costs on the spatial distribution of
population in a multi-regional economy, when a rise in the regional population generates …

… Because of the great diversity of countries and even of states and provinces, the data on
relative size of the largest city in each country and in the major divisions of six giant nations do …

… Tables l-3 review the results of fitting the Pareto distribution to available data on city size for
a number of nations, each a value representing the Pareto coefficient for a particular year. In …

… For this purpose, we build on the statistical results of Gabaix [11] and Córdoba [6] who …
city size is limited by the extent of the market, we find that city growth is independent of city size …

… to city size analyses, as it is by no means obvious that cities … the impact of city size or
agglomeration on economic growth … of city size on the productivity of urban workers at the city …

… paper builds on a recently proposed algorithm to construct cities based on … cities. We find
that Zipf’s law for population holds quite well, and well below the very upper tail of the city size …

… servations on statistical relationships of city size distributions. … studies on city size distributions
merely concentrated on … deductive theory of the distribution of cities. No-one has pruned …

… The first layer of "cities" superimposed on this basis consists of centers … size of this and the
following orders of cities, we make the following fundamental hypothesis: the size of any city is …

… The impression may bc dcrivcd from thc titlc tlhat attcntion will bc l'ocused on a single city
with respect to somc aggregale such as total population, gross income, or arcal extent, Such is …

… We review the accumulated knowledge on city size distributions and … of a number of key
stylized facts, including notably Zipf's law for cities (which states that the number of cities of size …