The Measurement of Settlement Centrality

Abstract

Most indices of settlement centrality that have been used in empirical studies of central place systems have, in fact, measured the nodality (or aggregate importance) of settlements rather than their centrality.The modification of W. K. 0. Davies's Functional Index described here will yield a measure of relative settlement centrality. Comparison of the modified index with the original index iii a study of central places in the Thessaly region of Greece suggests that the ~odification does provide a more accurate indicator of centrality than the original Functional Index.ALTHOUGH there continues to be considerable work on the development of central place theory, as recent publications by Beavon [2], Marshall [9] and Parr [I 11 il-

A Comparative Analysis Through Time and Space of Centrality’s Role in County Centers’ Spatial Position for Several Counties in Romania

“…All of these try to determine how important is a node in a given network. Some of the most commonly used are (Bennison, 2010): 1) degree centrality, which considers that the most important node is that which has the most connections;…”

“…Various indices characterizing the centrality are defined for network models, considering the nodes' degree, the participation of a node in multiple path, the distance of a node form the other etc. (Bennison, 2010). Although, studies which evaluates the centrality of nodes, representing settlements or inner points of settlements are not new (Kang, 2015) these researches are part of a continuously developing mainstream not just by their results but also with their research methodology (Hellerik et all., 2019).…”