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Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)

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This paper analyses the evolution of the European urban system from a long-term perspective (from 1300 to 1800) considering the historical data set of Bairoch et al. (1988). Using the method recently proposed by Clauset et al. (2009), a Pareto-type city size distribution (power law) is rejected from 1300 to 1600. A power law is a plausible model for the city size distribution only in 1700 and 1800, although the log-normal distribution is another plausible alternative model that we cannot reject. Moreover, random growth of cities is rejected using parametric and non-parametric methods. The results reveal a clear pattern of convergent growth in all periods.

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cc-by-nc-nd, (c) González-Val et al., 2016

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IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona) – Working Papers

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Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)