The Spatial Structuring of Central Places

Storbeck, James E.

doi:10.1111/j.1538-4632.1988.tb00169.x

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“…A particular emphasis was placed on a search for spatial order including within spatial interactions or movements between places (see: for historical details Johnston et al 2018). Indeed, a recurring theme published decade after decade in the journal is the pursuit to uncover the spatial structure within urban areas, spatial interactions, or economic activities, for example (Clark, Rushton, and Golledge 1970; Smith 1976; Fotheringham and Webber 1980; Storbeck 1988; Lo 1991; Sohn, Kim, and Hewings 2002; Arribas‐Bel and Tranos 2018). This search for order was necessitated by an ultimate goal of revealing fundamental theories regarding the spatial arrangement of people, activities, and their interactions upon this space.…”

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Toward a More Socially Impactful Geographical Analysis

Delmelle

2019

Geographical Analysis

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The fiftieth anniversary of Geographical Analysis occurs for many quantitative human geographers at an exciting era of new and exciting sources of data and computational advancements. However, it also represents a crossroads where excitement to quickly capitalize upon these new data sources and methods risks reverting the discipline back to its abstraction‐rich and overly generalized roots, erasing much progress made in the pages of this journal that advocated for the recognition of individual differences and need for alternative and even qualitative data sources. In this commentary, I reflect on what we can do over the next 50 years to ensure that the journal is producing research that is socially impactful and better able to explain the messiness of social reality.

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Toward a More Socially Impactful Geographical Analysis

Delmelle

2019

Geographical Analysis

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“…Technically, there are two dimensions to measure urban polycentricity: the morphological dimension and the functional dimension [5]. The former corresponds to the nodality of urban regions [6], while the latter relates to their centrality [7,8]. Functional polycentricity extends its morphological counterpart by incorporating the functional interactions among different regions [5], or network density [9].…”

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Discovering Urban Functional Polycentricity: A Traffic Flow-Embedded and Topic Modeling-Based Methodology Framework

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Liu²,

Wei³

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Sustainability

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With the rapid development of communication and transportation technologies, the urban area is increasingly becoming an ever more dynamic, comprehensive, and complex system. Meanwhile, functional polycentricity as a distinctive feature has been characterizing urban areas around the world. However, the spatial structure of the urban area has yet to be fully comprehended from a dynamic perspective, and understanding the spatial organization of polycentric urban regions (PUR) is crucial for issues related to urban planning, traffic control, and urban risk management. The analysis of polycentricity strongly depends on the spatial scale. In order to identify functional polycentricity at the intra-unban scale, this paper presents a traffic flow-embedded and topic modeling-based methodology framework. This framework was evaluated on real-world datasets from the Wujiang district, Suzhou, China, which contains 151,419 records of taxi trajectory data and 86,036 records of points of interest (POI) data. This paper provides a novel approach to examining urban functional polycentricity via combining urban function distribution and spatial interactions. This proposed methodology can help urban authorities better understand urban dynamics in terms of function distribution and internal connectedness and facilitate urban development in terms of urban planning and traffic control.

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“…It has been a longstanding assessment that real-world geographical features rapidly distort CPT's hexagonal geometries beyond recognition (Rushton, 1972). Consequently, we are less interested in finding exact geometrical patterns and focus instead on the degree to which we find systems that conform to the microfoundations of CPT (Christaller, [1933(Christaller, [ ] 1966Storbeck, 1988).…”

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Christaller and “big data”: recalibrating central place theory via the geoweb

Meeteren

Poorthuis

2017

Urban Geography

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This paper utilizes central place theory (CPT) to navigate the "deluge" brought about by big data. While originating in the 1930s, CPT is a theoretical monument of 1960s spatial science. CPT aims to understand settlement geographies based on consumption behavior, and often presented as a singular, outdated, rationalist theory. After critically reviewing the history of CPT, we assess the microfoundations of Christaller's CPT-the threshold and range of goodsfor various central functions in Louisville, Kentucky. The microfoundations are estimated through data from social media platforms Foursquare and Twitter. These sources alleviate many of the operationalization issues that traditionally hamper empirical use of CPT. The empirical application of CPT reveals that: i) Central functions have typical ranges and thresholds relating central places to population spread; ii) Central functions cluster based on an approximate hierarchical structure. The findings indicate the ongoing importance of CPT in shaping urban-economic geographies.

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The Spatial Structuring of Central Places

Cited by 16 publications

References 32 publications

Toward a More Socially Impactful Geographical Analysis

Toward a More Socially Impactful Geographical Analysis

Discovering Urban Functional Polycentricity: A Traffic Flow-Embedded and Topic Modeling-Based Methodology Framework

Christaller and “big data”: recalibrating central place theory via the geoweb

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