Rank-size rule is the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy.#2 = ½

#3 = 1/3#4 = ¼

#5 = 1/5

New York City: 8,336,697Los Angeles

ChicagoHouston

Philadelphia

Assess validity by finding populations of these cities based on rank-size formula.

Los Angeles: 3,857,799

Chicago: 2,714,856

Houston: 2, 160,821

Philadelphia: 1,547,607

Primate City Rule: If the largest city in a country has more than twice as many

people as the second largest city. Example: Mexico City has five times the population

of the second largest city, Guadalajara.

*What problems might arise from the presence of a primate city in a country?

Bid Rent theory

Why rebuild Dresden where it was? Why not start from scratch somewhere else? It would be cheaper to just

leave the ruins and start fresh elsewhere…?

Central place theory

Central Place Theory (Walter Christaller) explains how and

where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally

and spatially distributed with respect to one another.

Urban hierarchy organizes cities into a hierarchy based on size and importance.

Threshold is the minimum market area size for a good.

Range is the maximum distance a customer is willing to travel.

Gravity model says optimal location is directly related to number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

Apply Central Place Theory to baseball markets.