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  • Christaller made a number of assumptions such as:
    All areas have
    • an isotropic (all flat) surface
    • an evenly distributed population
    • evenly distributed resources
    • similiar purchasing power of all consumers
  • The theory points out that to prevent spheres of influence overlapping or having gaps, the best shape was a hexagon.
  • The breaking point is where the consumer is equidistant from two/more similar services i.e. where the consumer is equally far from two or more centers.
  • The formula to calculate it is djk=dij/(1+Square Root of(Pi/Pj)) where djk is the distance from j to k, dij is the distance between two towns, Pi/Pj are the populations of j and i and i is the bigger town.

    Other Notes in this Category

    1. Central Place Theory
    2. Christaller's CPT
    3. Definition
    4. Rank Size Rule and Primate City
    5. The growth of towns and cities
    6. Urban Morphology

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