Pinto, CarlaLopes, A. M.Tenreiro Machado, J. A.2019-04-162019-04-162011-11http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/13578Pareto and Zipf distributions have been used in the modeling of distinct phenomena, namely in biology, demography, computer science, economics, amongst others. In this paper, it is presented a short review of applications of these distributions in city sizes.engconference object