GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Central Place Theory
27 Apr 2016
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High order goods: expensive, purchased infrequently, people willing to travel longer distance. Different for low and high order goods: threshold: minimum market size for a business. Business at the centre of a circle. Area with the minimum number of consumers needed to support a business. Will be different sizes depending on order of goods. Used these principles and used them to explain distributions of towns and cities in germany. More small towns, very few big cities. Smaller towns closer together, big cities further apart. Goods available in big cities different from goods in small towns. To see the general spatial pattern of cities size produced by these facts and explain why these particular patterns happen. Central place theory predicts this hexagonal pattern emerging from human settlements. Southern germany not the best place to display this. Subsequently, other geographers took central place theory and applied it to other places in the world: szechuan map and diagram.
