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5 Urban Models
5 Urban Models
urban Development
Introduction
4 Spatial is relating to space
4 Urbanization is the movement of population from rural to
urban areas
4 A theory is an organized system of accepted knowledge
that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a
specific set of phenomena.
4 Urbanization is a relatively new global issue
4 In 1950 only 30% of the world’s population was urbanized
and 50% in 2009 lived in urban centres
4 The big question is how do towns come about to be?
Theories explaining the emergence of
towns
Central place theory
4 Examples. Polders of the Netherlands, the Fens of
East Anglia in the UK
4 Developed by the German geographer Walter
Christaller in 1933
4 It explains the reasons behind the distribution
patterns, size, and number of cities and towns.
4 Tested in Southern Germany and came to the
conclusion that people gather together in cities to
share goods and ideas and that they
Central place theory
Assumptions
4 humans will always purchase goods from the
closest place
4 unbounded isotropic (all flat), homogeneous,
limitless surface
4 evenly distributed population
4 all settlements are equidistant and exist in a
triangular lattice pattern
4 evenly distributed resources
Central place theory
Public choice theory