This study provides a systematic review of the existing literature on Zipf's law for city size
distribution. Existing empirical evidence suggests that Zipf's law is not always observable …

This chapter provides a survey of the specification and estimation of spatial panel data
models. Five panel data models commonly used in applied research are considered: the …

Urban development in southern Europe differs from urbanization patterns observed in other
affluent countries. Urbanization processes in the Mediterranean region reflect …

The purpose of this book is to provide a fairly detailed introduction to the analysis and
applications of heavy-tailed distributions in a number of important problems in economics …

Firm location patterns emerge as a consequence of multiple factors, including firm
considerations, labor force availability, market opportunities, and transportation costs. Many …

Locative social media networks as open sources of data allow researchers and
professionals to acknowledge which city places are preferred, used and livable. Following …

Research on shrinking cities shows continuous links between this phenomenon and the
process of urban decline, which has been analyzed in many works, especially in Greece …

Noise pollution is a pervasive factor that increasingly threatens natural resources and
human health worldwide. In particular, large-scale changes in road networks have driven …

In this article we suggest that the process of peri-urban formation is a case of “exploded
urbanism”–a situation in which urban features fly like shrapnel from the urban core to the …

A remarkable empirical regularity is that the city size distribution in many countries is well
approximated to a Pareto distribution. This claim is so widely accepted that it has gained the …