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Opening •How far would you be willing to travel for: –A bagel? –A music concert?

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Opening

• How far would you be willing to travel for:–A bagel?

–A music concert?

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Models of Urban Distribution and Location

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Rank-Size Rule

• Ideal urban system

• Population of a city is inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy

• 1/R x Population of Largest City• R = rank

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Rank-Size Rule

• Seems to hold true for mature urban systems (like the United States)

• Does not hold true for many developing countries– Primate city

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Central Place Theory• Walter Christaller (1933)

• How would cities (market centers) be distributed in the ideal?

• Assumptions– Featureless (isotropic) plain– Evenly distributed population/resources– Consumers have similar means/tastes

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Central Place Theory

• Hierarchy of goods– Range of a good

• How far one is willing to travel

– Threshold of a good• How much population you need to support

production

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Central Place Theory

• The larger the center, the fewer in the system

• Centers distinguished by goods available there– Orders of goods

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Central Place Theory

• The highest order center will provide all goods in the system

• Lower orders only certain goods

• So what is the best way to represent the distribution of market centers.

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Marketing Principle

k=3

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k=4

Transport Principle

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k=7

Administrative Principle