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physics.soc-ph2016★ 76 cited
MetaZipf. (Re)producing knowledge about city size distributions
Clementine Cottineau
Zipf's law for cities is probably the most famous regularity in social sciences. So much that, a hundred years of publication later, its status is not clear: is it a law of social…
physics.soc-ph2016★ 94 cited
Defining urban agglomerations to detect agglomeration economies
Clementine Cottineau, Olivier Finance, Erez Hatna +2
Agglomeration economies are a persistent subject of debate among economists and urban planners. Their definition turns on whether or not larger cities and regions are more efficien…