Geography Project on

Christallers
Central Place Theory

What is the theory about ?

seeks

to explain the size

and spacing of human
settlement
suggests that there are
laws determining the
number, size and
distribution of towns

The principle of Christaller

Three

different
arrangements of Central
Places Theory:
The Marketing Principle
(K=3)
The Transportation
Principle (K=4)
The Administrative
Principle (K=7)

The principle of Christaller

1.

price, demand
2. distance, Demand
With longer distance, people need to pay
more transportation cost, the higher
price they have to pay.
The maximum distance over which
people will travel to purchase Range of
goods
The minimum population that is required
to bring about the offering of the goods.
Threshold population.

Modern Development in
transport and marketing
Development

of railway

 Development

of highway

Wide spread of Internet

E-

Shops
E- Bank
Internet auction
Business forum
Exhibition

You can trade

on the Internet
by using our ebanking
services.

 Development

of ancillary services

for example, Consultants ,Advertising agencies

,Delivering services.etc
You want to
open a firm?
We can help
you!!

You would
like to send
your products
to
customers?
Find us!!!

We provide
professional
advertising services.

Example
This

shops brand name is

widely spread
So, even people living in
Hong Kong Island would
like to travel a rather long
distance to Yuen Long to
enjoy the food
Can you guess which
shop we are talking
about???

What is the effect of

these development
then???

1.Change in location
not locate at centre of a territory
anymore.
Locates at transport network
Reason: to enlarge market area,
because mobility of customers rise

2. Change in range of goods:

There

are more high order centers and

less smaller markets
Reason: High order centers include
both high and low order goods

Let me buy all the

goods
I need at one go!!!

Its time to say bye bye

What thing does it would like to

illustrate?
Multi-purpose

trip.
It means that in weekends or holidays,
people will purchase a full range of
goods in one single journey.
Demand for higher order town
But
Demand for lower order town
and finally they will be eliminated
through keen competition

3.Existence of E-commerce
A

seller says I
can make profits
too here, even
though no
customers
comes~!!!!

 Some

sellers rather choose to stay at

place with low-rent price, why???
Because of the existence of
computer~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Customers

can buy goods and services

via internet easily. They can just sitting
arm-chair and order goods and they
will be delivered to their place. This is
used very often for standardized
goods.

Conclusions that can be

made
The

larger the settlements, the fewer

their number
The larger a settlement, the farther
away a similar size settlement is
The Range increases as the population
increases
The larger the settlement, the higher
the order of its services.

Evaluation on CPT
Production

cost may vary

Transportation cost are not equal in
different direction
Rural market is not evenly distributed
Cultural, political, personal perception
or else, factors other than economic
may be important too

Heres come to a
question
Can Christallers Central
Place Theory still apply to
the real world situation
nowadays?????

Example on K=3

Examples on K=4
Cambridge

in UK
Consider Cambridge as a central
place
Surrounded by 7, rather than 6,
settlements
Each is 10-15 miles from Cambridge
As all of the satellite settlements
are on transport links, this is a good
example of a K=4 CPT model

Ely
St
Ives
St Neots
Royston

Newmarke
t

Cambridg
e
Haverhil
l
Saffron
Walden

What can we learn form

CPT???
Urban

planning
For society to ensure equal provision
of goods and services
Provides specific, relevant, reliable
information to economic developers,
suppliers what kind of trade or service
enterprise will and also will not likely
work!!!

Members List
Jane

Lam Lai Fa
Joanne Chu Chung Yan
Ryan Chan Kin Ho
Gary Kwan Tsz Chung

The End