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- Title
Transportation and Loschian Market Areas: A Historical Perspective.
- Authors
Nicholls, J. A. F.
- Abstract
During the past year there have been a number of perceptive studies devoted to central place analysis. This research has been based upon theoretical foundations laid by Walter Christaller, the geographer and August Lösch, the economist, in the 1930s. These empirical studies have followed directions suggested by researcher Brian Berry's seminal work in the field. That is, research has been confined largely to analysis of the hierarchy of cities and related concepts such as city functions, distribution of establishments, the range of a good and the threshold of a good. There has been little, if any, explicit consideration of central place theory from an historical perspective. This article attempts to provide this kind of analysis. It is divided into three sections. The first section sketches out the main elements of the Löschian central place theory and indicates what the theory may lead one to expect in the real world. The second section uses development of central Indiana in the sixteenth century as a case study to compare the general economic characteristics of this region with the Löschian model. The final section summarizes these findings and evaluates the theory in view of the historical evidence.
- Subjects
INDIANA; INDIANAPOLIS (Ind.); UNITED States; CENTRAL places; CITIES &; towns; TRANSPORTATION; CHRISTALLER, Walter; BERRY, Brian; MARKETS; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Land Economics, 1970, Vol 46, Issue 1, p22
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3145420