Rank-size rule is the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to...
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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
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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.
