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Zipf's law for cities: a standalone construct

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Urban economics

the regularity that a city's population is roughly inversely proportional to its rank in the national city-size distribution.

In urban economics, Zipf's law for cities refers to the regularity that a city's population is roughly inversely proportional to its rank in the national city-size distribution. This meaning comes from Gabaix (1999) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics.[1]

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References

Gabaix, X. (1999). Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 114(3), 739-767. https://doi.org/10.1162/003355399556133

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