scholarly journals New Approaches in Defining the Structure of Urban Settlement Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cansu Güller ◽  
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Çiğdem Varol ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Temporal Structure ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Central Place Theory ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Settlement Systems ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
Urban Patterns ◽  
Technological Developments

Technological developments such as the extensive use of modern communication tools and increasing infrastructure opportunities have changed the spatial organization forms and daily life practices in cities. Previously, central place theory, which explains hierarchical urban patterns based on the minimum population size-based threshold concept and the maximum distance-based range concept has become incompetent to explain the spatial organization of today's settlements. At this point, in defining the urbanization processes and explaining the spatial organization, the search for new conceptual and methodological approaches has become important. In this study, changing urban systems are evaluated in terms of closeness centrality, attribute centrality, network centrality, and geographical centrality based on space of flows and interpreted by current parameters. It is concluded that in defining the structure and spatial organization of urban systems, the morphological and functional dimensions of urban systems should be evaluated besides the parameters of population, geographical proximity or network relations. In this context, a model proposal has been developed by using current parameters such as density, diversity, mobility, connectivity, spatial-temporal structure, and urban networks.

Temporal Change in a Central-Place System

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
J B Parr
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Change ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Systematic Treatment ◽  
Central Place Theory ◽  
Central Places ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
General Lack ◽  
Central Place System ◽  
Static Approach

A serious deficiency in the development of central-place theory has been the general lack of any systematic treatment of the question of temporal change. This deficiency has undoubtedly impaired the usefulness of central-place theory in the analysis of urban systems. In this paper three broad categories of temporal change in a central-place system are identified. One such category involves changes in the structure of the hierarchy. These consist of the formation of a new level of the hierarchy, the modification in the extent of a level, and the disappearance of a level. Existing central-place models prove inadequate for dealing with changes of this kind, and it becomes necessary to adopt a comparative-static approach which employs less restrictive models. Such an approach inevitably involves a degree of simplification, although it is able to take account of the fact that change takes place against a background of locational inertia, in which the locations of central places are fixed. This comparative-static approach may be helpful in the analysis of actual urban systems and their development through time.

scholarly journals External Urban Relational Process: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place Theory

Urban Studies ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (13) ◽  
pp. 2803-2818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Taylor ◽  
Michael Hoyler ◽  
Raf Verbruggen
Keyword(s):  
Network Model ◽  
Hierarchical Model ◽  
Flow Theory ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Central Place Theory ◽  
Urban Networks ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Central Flow ◽  
Relational Process

Central place hierarchies have been the traditional basis for understanding external urban relations. However, in contemporary studies of these relations, a new emphasis on urban networks has emerged. Rather than either abandoning or extending central place thinking, it is here treated as representing one of two generic processes of external urban relations. Town-ness is the making of ‘local’ urban—hinterland relations and ‘city-ness’ is the making of ‘non-local’ interurban relations. Central place theory describes the former through an interlocking hierarchical model; this paper proposes a central flow theory to describe the latter through an interlocking network model. The key difference is the level of complexity in the two processes.

scholarly journals Modelling of spatial organization and the dichotomy of centre–periphery

Geografie ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marián Halás
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Fractal Theory ◽  
Spatial Models ◽  
Geometric Approach ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Spatial Organisation ◽  
Central Place Theory ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
Graphic Depiction

One way to understand peripherality is to view it as a characteristic reflecting geographical and spatial organisation. In such case, attributes such as location, population density, infrastructure, etc. feature as primary indicators. A second approach to peripherality places emphasis on the assessment of social and economic indicators, irrespective of location in a geographic sense. The first, geographic or geometric, approach towards peripherality can be more readily depicted by graphic spatial models. This contribution attempts to identify the general patterns of spatial organisation of the core – periphery dichotomy and to capture the graphic depiction of this distribution for the example of Slovakia and Czechia. This effort resulted in the identification of common and different features of the spatial distribution of central and peripheral regions in both countries. The organisational hierarchy and the theoretical core–periphery distribution model have been adopted from the central place theory and from the fractal theory.

Rational-Choice Models and Asian Studies

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Little
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Transport Cost ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Central Place Theory ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
The Individual

The rational-choice paradigm has been attractive to many area specialists in their efforts to arrive at explanations of social and political behavior in various parts of the world. This model of explanation is simple yet powerful; we attempt to explain a pattern of social behavior or an enduring social arrangement as the aggregate outcome of the goal-directed choices of large numbers of rational agents. Why did the Nian rebellion occur? It was the result of the individual-level survival strategies of north China peasants (Perry 1980). Why did the central places of late imperial Sichuan conform to the hexagonal arrays predicted by central-place theory? Because participants—consumers, merchants, and officials—made rational decisions based on considerations of transport cost (Skinner 1964–65). Why was late imperial Chinese agriculture stagnant? Because none of the actors within the agricultural system had both the incentive and the capacity to invest in agricultural innovation (Lippit 1987).

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