An Economic Theory of Central Places

Eaton, B. Curtis; Lipsey, Richard G.

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“…The first one involves C equidistant cities, with C = 2, 4, 8, 16, ..., each having the same size and industrial mix. 5 All industries are, therefore, present in each city; however, each city is specialized in a different set of varieties, which leads to intra-industry and inter-city trade. The second configuration is described by a set of nested cities that have different sizes and industry structures.…”

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“…If there are no economic forces which lead firms of different types to cluster, it is hard to see why a central place system would be more likely to emerge than any other configuration. One of the first economic contributions to central place theory we are aware of is due to Eaton and Lipsey (1982), who develop a spatial competition model of central places, and to Quinzii and Thisse (1990), who retain the same approach to show that the central place configuration is socially optimal. More recently, Hsu and Holmes (2009) have followed a similar approach and have extended it to the case of several sectors.…”

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A new economic geography model of central places

Tabuchi

Thisse

2011

Journal of Urban Economics

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A new economic geography model of central places

Tabuchi

Thisse

2011

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…In other words, multi-purpose shopping will usually take place (Eaton and Lipsey 1982), in contrast to the single purpose travel assumed by Christaller in his basic model. For this reason, most trips are made to higher order places instead of places of lower order.…”

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Hub Location Problems: The Location of Interacting Facilities

Kara

Taner

2011

International Series in Operations Research &Amp; Management Science

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), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. PrefaceThis book is the final result of a number of incidents that occurred to us while discussing location issues with colleagues at conferences. Frequently we attended presentations, in which the authors quoted the well-known references that helped to make the discipline what it is today. Upon further inquiry, though, it turned out that some of these colleagues had never actually read the original papers. We then discussed among ourselves which contributions could be credited with shaping the field. And, lo and behold, we found that we, too, had neglected to read some of the papers that form the foundation of our science. Whether it was laziness or other things that got in the way, it had become clear that something had to be done. Our first thought was to collect the original contributions (once we could agree on what they were) and reprint them. When discussing this possibility with a publisher, we immediately ran into a roadblock in the form of copyright. While this appeared to have stopped our enthusiastic effort dead in its tracks, we kept on collecting and reading what we considered original contributions.This went on until we met Camille Price, who suggested that, rather than reprinting the original contributions, we should invite some of the leaders in our field and ask them to describe the original contribution, explain and interpret it, and comment on the impact that it had to the field. This was, of course, an excellent idea, and the response by our colleagues to our pertinent requests was equally enthusiastic. What you hold in your hands is the result of this effort.In other words, the purpose of this book is to provide easy access to the main contributions to location theory. The book is organized as follows. The introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the many facets of location analysis. This is followed by contributions in the main three fields of inquiry: minisum, minimax, and covering problems. The next chapters are part of an ever-growing list of nonstandard location models: models including competitive components, those that locate undesirable facilities, those with probabilistic features, and those that allow interactions between facilities. The following chapters discuss solution techniques: after a discussion of exact and heuristic techniques, we devote an entire chapter to Weiszfeld's method, and another to Lagrangean techniques. The last chapters of this book deal with the spheres of influence that the facilities generate and that attract viii customers to them, an...

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“…33 Christaller argued about a system of central places that exhibits a hierarchical principle: any goods supplied in a central place of order i is also supplied in all central places of order j>i. Centrality became an important issue in studies of South African towns. 34 However, Eaton and Lipsey 35 argued that Christaller's theory of central places is simultaneously a theory of the location and agglomeration of economic activity in which there is no force creating agglomeration, in which agglomeration serves no purpose, and in which no firm ever chooses a location. Despite this criticism, economic geographers and regional economists remain interested in the reasons for uneven regional development.…”

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Power laws, demography and entrepreneurship in selected South African regions

Toerien¹

2018

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Statistically significant Pareto-like log-log rank-size distributions were recorded for population and enterprise agglomeration in the towns of three different regions of South Africa, and are indicative of skewed distributions of population and enterprise numbers in regional towns. There were no distinct differences between groups of towns of regions from different parts of the country. However, the regional agglomerations differed from those of groups of towns randomly selected from a database. Regions, therefore, appear to have some uniqueness regarding such agglomerations. The identification of Zipf-like links between population and enterprise growth in regional towns still does not fully explain why some towns grow large and others stay small and there is a need to further explore these issues. The extreme skewness in population and enterprise numbers of different towns’ distributions should, however, be considered in local economic development planning and execution.

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An Economic Theory of Central Places

Cited by 219 publications

References 18 publications

A new economic geography model of central places

A new economic geography model of central places

Hub Location Problems: The Location of Interacting Facilities

Power laws, demography and entrepreneurship in selected South African regions

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