This document summarizes classical location theory, which analyzes factors that influence where firms choose to locate their facilities. It discusses theories that aim to minimize transportation costs of inputs and outputs. Key factors discussed include the location of resources, markets, and transportation infrastructure like ports. Influential economists discussed include Alfred Weber and Harold Hotelling. Diagrams illustrate concepts like optimal locations within market areas and Hotelling's model of spatial competition between duopolists.
Von thunen’s model of agricultural land use The Urban Unit
Von Thunen's model of agricultural land use proposes that the type of agriculture around a central city is determined by transportation costs. The model describes four concentric rings radiating out from the city, with the most perishable and highest value crops like dairy in the inner ring due to high transport costs, and ranching in the outer ring since animals are self-transporting. The model aims to explain how farmers maximize profits by balancing production costs, market prices, and distance from market. While simplified, the model provides a useful illustration of the relationship between land use and transportation costs.
There are four main theories of industrial location:
1) Weber's (1909) least cost theory, which states that industries locate where transportation costs of raw materials and finished products are minimized. This depends on whether the industry is weight gaining or weight losing.
2) Hotelling's (1929) theory of locational interdependence, which examines how demand impacts location as competitors try to capture market share in their locations.
3) Losch's (1939) theory of demand-oriented location, which focused on maximizing access to markets for finished goods.
4) Smith and Pred's (1971) profit-maximization theory examining how firms locate based on profit considerations.
The document discusses environmental justice and outlines several key points:
1) Environmental justice aims to ensure that no groups bear a disproportionate share of negative environmental impacts. It addresses issues like "environmental racism" and ensuring equal protection and opportunity.
2) Health is a main focus of the environmental justice movement in addressing how pollution and toxins affect communities. Several case studies of disproportionately impacted areas are mentioned.
3) Solutions discussed include preventing environmental threats proactively, mobilizing affected communities, and joining environmental and social justice efforts into a unified movement focusing on sustainability and equitable development.
The Weber model of industrial location uses transportation costs to predict where industries will locate. It assumes firms face no risks and have identical production costs everywhere. Raw materials can be ubiquitous and found everywhere or localized in certain areas.
Weber developed diagrams to show least cost locations. A straight line diagram shows the location when one raw material is localized and one is ubiquitous. A triangular diagram shows when two raw materials are localized. Isotims represent lines of equal transportation costs, while isodapanes connect points of equal total transportation costs to determine the overall least cost location. Agglomeration economies, or savings from locating near other firms, are also considered.
theories in rural development and planningGopal Menghwar
The document discusses theories and concepts related to rural planning and development. It defines key terms like development, rural area, and planning. It outlines the concept of development as a multi-dimensional process involving economic growth and social transformation. Rural development is defined as a strategy to improve the lives of rural poor through collective processes and changing traditional ways of living. The objectives and importance of rural development are discussed, including increasing access to basic goods and services, raising income levels, and empowering rural communities. Rural development is presented as a dynamic process involving agricultural growth, infrastructure development, and improving health, education, and living standards in rural areas.
Spatial planning are often still differentiating strictly between urban and rural development.
This dichotomy and the resulting administrative boundaries do not reflect the realities of highly interconnected areas anymore.
The sheer magnitude of the urban population, haphazard and unplanned growth of urban areas, and a desperate lack of infrastructure are the main causes of socio economic problems related to metropolitan cities.
Where metropolitan-scale planning does occur, it's typically related to “hard policies” such as urban planning, public transport, and infrastructure, leaving “soft policies” such as education, health, and social services fragmented across jurisdictional boundaries.
Sustainable Cities: Urban Impacts of Climate ChangeAnuradha Mukherji
The document discusses the causes and impacts of climate change, as well as strategies for adaptation and mitigation. It notes that increased greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial revolution are changing the composition of the atmosphere and global climate. The impacts of climate change include threats to water resources, energy, infrastructure, food supply, public health, and coastal areas from issues like rising seas and increased extreme weather events. Cities contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions but can also play a key role in addressing climate change through resilient planning approaches that incorporate both mitigation and adaptation measures.
Von thunen’s model of agricultural land use The Urban Unit
Von Thunen's model of agricultural land use proposes that the type of agriculture around a central city is determined by transportation costs. The model describes four concentric rings radiating out from the city, with the most perishable and highest value crops like dairy in the inner ring due to high transport costs, and ranching in the outer ring since animals are self-transporting. The model aims to explain how farmers maximize profits by balancing production costs, market prices, and distance from market. While simplified, the model provides a useful illustration of the relationship between land use and transportation costs.
There are four main theories of industrial location:
1) Weber's (1909) least cost theory, which states that industries locate where transportation costs of raw materials and finished products are minimized. This depends on whether the industry is weight gaining or weight losing.
2) Hotelling's (1929) theory of locational interdependence, which examines how demand impacts location as competitors try to capture market share in their locations.
3) Losch's (1939) theory of demand-oriented location, which focused on maximizing access to markets for finished goods.
4) Smith and Pred's (1971) profit-maximization theory examining how firms locate based on profit considerations.
The document discusses environmental justice and outlines several key points:
1) Environmental justice aims to ensure that no groups bear a disproportionate share of negative environmental impacts. It addresses issues like "environmental racism" and ensuring equal protection and opportunity.
2) Health is a main focus of the environmental justice movement in addressing how pollution and toxins affect communities. Several case studies of disproportionately impacted areas are mentioned.
3) Solutions discussed include preventing environmental threats proactively, mobilizing affected communities, and joining environmental and social justice efforts into a unified movement focusing on sustainability and equitable development.
The Weber model of industrial location uses transportation costs to predict where industries will locate. It assumes firms face no risks and have identical production costs everywhere. Raw materials can be ubiquitous and found everywhere or localized in certain areas.
Weber developed diagrams to show least cost locations. A straight line diagram shows the location when one raw material is localized and one is ubiquitous. A triangular diagram shows when two raw materials are localized. Isotims represent lines of equal transportation costs, while isodapanes connect points of equal total transportation costs to determine the overall least cost location. Agglomeration economies, or savings from locating near other firms, are also considered.
theories in rural development and planningGopal Menghwar
The document discusses theories and concepts related to rural planning and development. It defines key terms like development, rural area, and planning. It outlines the concept of development as a multi-dimensional process involving economic growth and social transformation. Rural development is defined as a strategy to improve the lives of rural poor through collective processes and changing traditional ways of living. The objectives and importance of rural development are discussed, including increasing access to basic goods and services, raising income levels, and empowering rural communities. Rural development is presented as a dynamic process involving agricultural growth, infrastructure development, and improving health, education, and living standards in rural areas.
Spatial planning are often still differentiating strictly between urban and rural development.
This dichotomy and the resulting administrative boundaries do not reflect the realities of highly interconnected areas anymore.
The sheer magnitude of the urban population, haphazard and unplanned growth of urban areas, and a desperate lack of infrastructure are the main causes of socio economic problems related to metropolitan cities.
Where metropolitan-scale planning does occur, it's typically related to “hard policies” such as urban planning, public transport, and infrastructure, leaving “soft policies” such as education, health, and social services fragmented across jurisdictional boundaries.
Sustainable Cities: Urban Impacts of Climate ChangeAnuradha Mukherji
The document discusses the causes and impacts of climate change, as well as strategies for adaptation and mitigation. It notes that increased greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial revolution are changing the composition of the atmosphere and global climate. The impacts of climate change include threats to water resources, energy, infrastructure, food supply, public health, and coastal areas from issues like rising seas and increased extreme weather events. Cities contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions but can also play a key role in addressing climate change through resilient planning approaches that incorporate both mitigation and adaptation measures.
Drainage masterplan for delhi - recommendationsAkanksha Chopra
The document presents a drainage master plan for Delhi that addresses several issues with the current drainage system, including a lack of separation between sewage and stormwater infrastructure, increased runoff from paved surfaces, and pollution of water sources. The master plan proposes policies for implementing natural water management strategies like "zero runoff" standards, managing stormwater locally through watershed plans and drainage maps, restoring natural systems through bioremediation, and protecting permeable surfaces and groundwater recharge. It highlights the need to minimize runoff and catch stormwater at its source using green streets and parks rather than conveying it quickly through piped drains to water bodies.
This document discusses different types of rural and urban settlements and settlement patterns. It defines a settlement as a place where people live and work. Settlements are classified as rural or urban based on population size, main functions, available amenities, and way of life. Rural settlements typically have smaller populations and are involved in activities like farming, mining and fishing. Urban settlements have larger populations and focus on manufacturing and business. Common settlement patterns include dispersed, linear and nucleated. Examples of each type are described along with reasons for their development based on geography, transportation and sharing of resources.
Ecological economics aims to address the interdependence of human economies and natural ecosystems over time and space. It recognizes that issues like deforestation, pollution, and climate change are driven by economic decisions but traditional economics has overlooked ecosystems and sustainability. Ecological economics seeks true economic efficiency by incorporating all costs, including those related to resource depletion and environmental damage, into prices. It also acknowledges that resources and ecosystems are the foundation of the economy and that the economy is ultimately bounded by and dependent on the planet.
This document defines a green economy as one that improves human well-being and reduces environmental risks and ecological scarcities. It discusses the principles, features, tools, myths and benefits of a green economy. A green economy creates jobs in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and manufacturing, public transportation, and green infrastructure. It debunks myths that a green economy inhibits growth and is only for wealthy nations, providing examples where green jobs have lifted people out of poverty. A green economy is economically sound because it invests in natural capital and ecosystem services that support tourism, recreation and public health.
- August Losch published his central place theory in 1940, attempting to explain the spatial arrangement, size, and number of settlements.
- He based the theory on assumptions including an isotropic surface, constant supply of goods, evenly distributed population, and that demand decreases with distance from production centers.
- The theory simplified the world to a flat plain with circular market areas that eventually form a hexagonal pattern as more producers enter the market and compete for profits.
- The theory was criticized for being too abstract and simplistic in its treatment of demand and locational interdependence. Empirical studies did not always match the predicted patterns.
Ernest Burgess developed the concentric zone theory in the 1920s to model urban spatial patterns. The theory proposes that a city is organized into 5 concentric rings radiating out from the central business district. Zone 1 is the CBD with commercial activities. Zone 2 is a transitional zone with factories and abandoned buildings. Zone 3 is inhabited by working-class residents in tenements. Zone 4 contains middle-class houses, yards, and garages. Zone 5 is located furthest from the CBD and contains upper-class houses and suburbs. The theory argues that socioeconomic status decreases the further one moves from the CBD.
Potentiality of Tourism in Chandannagar, Hooghly, West Bengal A French Coloni...ijtsrd
Tourism potential refers to capacity of tourism of a particular region with reference to local resources. It is one of the important remarkable economic social phenomena of chandannagar town. Tourism is the major consumer preferences are the tourist of this town. The major focus of this paper understanding the capacity of tourism of this town with reference to cultural heritage, sustainable uses of resources and govt. initiatives with ecological footprint. Ayan Kumar Maity | Chandralekha Bandyopadhyay "Potentiality of Tourism in Chandannagar, Hooghly, West Bengal - A French Colonial Town" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-1 , December 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38053.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/geography/38053/potentiality-of-tourism-in-chandannagar-hooghly-west-bengal--a-french-colonial-town/ayan-kumar-maity
Copy of sustainable urban development ppt presentationAr. Mukunda K.S
This document discusses sustainable urban development in Indian cities. It notes that sustainable cities must provide basic needs and infrastructure for all sections of society without burdening future generations. Strong cities depend on healthy environments, robust economies, and employment. The focus is on sensitizing decision-makers to the problems of urban poor. It outlines some initiatives and progress made towards sustainable development, including conferences and commissions. It also discusses challenges facing large Indian cities like population growth, pollution, poor housing, and loss of green space. Sustainable development theory is still evolving given pressures on cities and problems faced by migrant populations.
Definition of Zoning,Land use planning,Urban planning,Urban and regional planning,Regional planning,Zones,Zone planning,Land use planning in india,objectives of land use planning,objectives of zone planning
Von Thunen published his theory of agricultural land use patterns in 1826 in his book "The Isolated State". The theory was based on an isolated region with homogeneous climate and soil quality where the only mode of transportation was by foot. It proposed that there would be concentric zones of land use radiating from the city center based on transport costs and product perishability. Dairy farming would be in the innermost zone due to high transport costs of perishable products, followed by zones for forestry, vegetables, and grazing further from the city. The bid rent curve showed the relationship between economic rent and distance from the market. While pioneering, the theory was based on unrealistic assumptions and had limitations in applying to contemporary systems
Homer Hoyt developed the sector theory or sector model of urban land use in 1939 as an alternative to the concentric zone model. The sector model posits that a city develops in wedge-shaped sectors centered around major transportation routes rather than concentric circles. Land uses cluster around transportation routes, with industry locating near ports, railroads, or roads. Residential areas then develop, with lower income housing nearer the industrial areas and transportation. Middle and high-income housing is located further out. The model was applied to Chicago and found to accurately describe the city's development around railroad lines.
Eelco Baan
“Food Security and Nutrition in an Urbanizing World”
June 06, 2017
Brussels, Belgium
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), SNV Netherlands Development Organization, and Welthungerhilfe are jointly organizing a one-day event in Brussels on the eve of the European Development Days to explore the challenges and opportunities of urbanization from a variety of perspectives.
Due to the global economy, the spatiality is more and more important issue. In the past, usually spatial organization based on nation level, for now this is fundamentally transformed to regions.
The Hoyt model is a modification of the concentric zone model that proposes cities grow in sectors or "wedges" along transportation routes like roads, railways, or rivers. Land use remains consistent within each sector, so wealthy areas remain wealthy as poorer uses like industry are located farther from residential zones. While the Hoyt model explains growth patterns in some older cities, it does not account for factors like private automobile use, edge cities, or changes to downtown business districts over time. Physical geography and leapfrog development can also impact sector growth.
Stormwater management aims to reduce surface runoff from rain and snowmelt by promoting infiltration and replenishing groundwater. It is important in urban areas with many impervious surfaces to prevent flooding and pollution. Traditional methods only moved water away, while modern approaches try to restore natural water cycles through retention basins, infiltration basins, bioswales, green roofs, and low impact development techniques. Calculating surface runoff estimates how much water will flow over an area based on its size, average rainfall, and surface type to help design effective drainage systems.
Central Place Theory proposes that settlements function as market centers that provide goods and services to surrounding hinterlands. The hierarchy and distribution of settlements is based on their functions and the distances people will travel. Larger central places with more services are farther apart and include the hinterlands of smaller places. The theory uses hexagonal tessellation and assumptions about uniform landscapes to model how central places are spatially arranged. While a simplification, the central place model explains real hierarchies and relationships between human settlements.
The rank size rule attempts to establish a numerical relationship between population sizes of settlements within a country or region. It ranks settlements by population size, with the largest first. It assumes the second largest settlement will be half the population of the largest, the third largest a third, and so on. While variations often occur, it provides a model for comparing city population distributions. Exceptions include primate cities, where one city dominates population size, and binary distributions, where two cities are of almost equal size.
1. The document discusses various location theories proposed by Alfred Weber, Hotelling, Christaller, Hoover, Losch, and Isard.
2. Weber's location theory from 1909 proposed that firms choose locations where costs are lowest, considering factors like raw material costs, transportation costs, and labor costs.
3. Hotelling's location theory from 1929 examined how two competing firms on a linear city would choose locations to maximize market coverage.
Central Place Theory proposes that settlements are arranged in a hierarchy based on their provision of goods and services. It assumes an even distribution of resources, population, and transportation costs. Central places provide market areas for goods and services, with higher-order settlements offering a wider range of goods and services to larger market areas. The theory outlines three principles: the marketing principle minimizes the number of settlements; the transportation principle minimizes road lengths; and the administrative principle ensures smaller market areas are enclosed within larger ones. Central Place Theory provides a framework for understanding urban hierarchies and has been applied to market planning and development projects, though its assumptions do not always reflect real-world conditions.
This document summarizes land use theory and economics. It discusses the functions of land including as a location for raw materials, capital goods, agriculture, and housing. Land rent theory is explained, with the rent determined by production, costs, and transportation costs. The quality and intensity of land use is related to distance from markets, according to Von Thünen, with the most intensive use closest to markets. Ricardo added that land quality also impacts intensity, with higher quality land used more intensively. Land prices are determined by discounting future rents. Applications show relationships between population density and productivity and fertilizer use.
This document introduces concepts in regional economics and spatial analysis. It discusses the key theories of Von Thünen's land rent theory and Weber's location theory. Von Thünen tried to explain land productivity and intensity of use based on rent. Weber's location theory focused on minimizing transportation and labor costs. The document also defines important spatial concepts like economic space, locations, routes, and regions. It previews how subsequent chapters will apply location theory to producers and consumers and cover regional development theory.
Drainage masterplan for delhi - recommendationsAkanksha Chopra
The document presents a drainage master plan for Delhi that addresses several issues with the current drainage system, including a lack of separation between sewage and stormwater infrastructure, increased runoff from paved surfaces, and pollution of water sources. The master plan proposes policies for implementing natural water management strategies like "zero runoff" standards, managing stormwater locally through watershed plans and drainage maps, restoring natural systems through bioremediation, and protecting permeable surfaces and groundwater recharge. It highlights the need to minimize runoff and catch stormwater at its source using green streets and parks rather than conveying it quickly through piped drains to water bodies.
This document discusses different types of rural and urban settlements and settlement patterns. It defines a settlement as a place where people live and work. Settlements are classified as rural or urban based on population size, main functions, available amenities, and way of life. Rural settlements typically have smaller populations and are involved in activities like farming, mining and fishing. Urban settlements have larger populations and focus on manufacturing and business. Common settlement patterns include dispersed, linear and nucleated. Examples of each type are described along with reasons for their development based on geography, transportation and sharing of resources.
Ecological economics aims to address the interdependence of human economies and natural ecosystems over time and space. It recognizes that issues like deforestation, pollution, and climate change are driven by economic decisions but traditional economics has overlooked ecosystems and sustainability. Ecological economics seeks true economic efficiency by incorporating all costs, including those related to resource depletion and environmental damage, into prices. It also acknowledges that resources and ecosystems are the foundation of the economy and that the economy is ultimately bounded by and dependent on the planet.
This document defines a green economy as one that improves human well-being and reduces environmental risks and ecological scarcities. It discusses the principles, features, tools, myths and benefits of a green economy. A green economy creates jobs in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and manufacturing, public transportation, and green infrastructure. It debunks myths that a green economy inhibits growth and is only for wealthy nations, providing examples where green jobs have lifted people out of poverty. A green economy is economically sound because it invests in natural capital and ecosystem services that support tourism, recreation and public health.
- August Losch published his central place theory in 1940, attempting to explain the spatial arrangement, size, and number of settlements.
- He based the theory on assumptions including an isotropic surface, constant supply of goods, evenly distributed population, and that demand decreases with distance from production centers.
- The theory simplified the world to a flat plain with circular market areas that eventually form a hexagonal pattern as more producers enter the market and compete for profits.
- The theory was criticized for being too abstract and simplistic in its treatment of demand and locational interdependence. Empirical studies did not always match the predicted patterns.
Ernest Burgess developed the concentric zone theory in the 1920s to model urban spatial patterns. The theory proposes that a city is organized into 5 concentric rings radiating out from the central business district. Zone 1 is the CBD with commercial activities. Zone 2 is a transitional zone with factories and abandoned buildings. Zone 3 is inhabited by working-class residents in tenements. Zone 4 contains middle-class houses, yards, and garages. Zone 5 is located furthest from the CBD and contains upper-class houses and suburbs. The theory argues that socioeconomic status decreases the further one moves from the CBD.
Potentiality of Tourism in Chandannagar, Hooghly, West Bengal A French Coloni...ijtsrd
Tourism potential refers to capacity of tourism of a particular region with reference to local resources. It is one of the important remarkable economic social phenomena of chandannagar town. Tourism is the major consumer preferences are the tourist of this town. The major focus of this paper understanding the capacity of tourism of this town with reference to cultural heritage, sustainable uses of resources and govt. initiatives with ecological footprint. Ayan Kumar Maity | Chandralekha Bandyopadhyay "Potentiality of Tourism in Chandannagar, Hooghly, West Bengal - A French Colonial Town" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-1 , December 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd38053.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/geography/38053/potentiality-of-tourism-in-chandannagar-hooghly-west-bengal--a-french-colonial-town/ayan-kumar-maity
Copy of sustainable urban development ppt presentationAr. Mukunda K.S
This document discusses sustainable urban development in Indian cities. It notes that sustainable cities must provide basic needs and infrastructure for all sections of society without burdening future generations. Strong cities depend on healthy environments, robust economies, and employment. The focus is on sensitizing decision-makers to the problems of urban poor. It outlines some initiatives and progress made towards sustainable development, including conferences and commissions. It also discusses challenges facing large Indian cities like population growth, pollution, poor housing, and loss of green space. Sustainable development theory is still evolving given pressures on cities and problems faced by migrant populations.
Definition of Zoning,Land use planning,Urban planning,Urban and regional planning,Regional planning,Zones,Zone planning,Land use planning in india,objectives of land use planning,objectives of zone planning
Von Thunen published his theory of agricultural land use patterns in 1826 in his book "The Isolated State". The theory was based on an isolated region with homogeneous climate and soil quality where the only mode of transportation was by foot. It proposed that there would be concentric zones of land use radiating from the city center based on transport costs and product perishability. Dairy farming would be in the innermost zone due to high transport costs of perishable products, followed by zones for forestry, vegetables, and grazing further from the city. The bid rent curve showed the relationship between economic rent and distance from the market. While pioneering, the theory was based on unrealistic assumptions and had limitations in applying to contemporary systems
Homer Hoyt developed the sector theory or sector model of urban land use in 1939 as an alternative to the concentric zone model. The sector model posits that a city develops in wedge-shaped sectors centered around major transportation routes rather than concentric circles. Land uses cluster around transportation routes, with industry locating near ports, railroads, or roads. Residential areas then develop, with lower income housing nearer the industrial areas and transportation. Middle and high-income housing is located further out. The model was applied to Chicago and found to accurately describe the city's development around railroad lines.
Eelco Baan
“Food Security and Nutrition in an Urbanizing World”
June 06, 2017
Brussels, Belgium
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), SNV Netherlands Development Organization, and Welthungerhilfe are jointly organizing a one-day event in Brussels on the eve of the European Development Days to explore the challenges and opportunities of urbanization from a variety of perspectives.
Due to the global economy, the spatiality is more and more important issue. In the past, usually spatial organization based on nation level, for now this is fundamentally transformed to regions.
The Hoyt model is a modification of the concentric zone model that proposes cities grow in sectors or "wedges" along transportation routes like roads, railways, or rivers. Land use remains consistent within each sector, so wealthy areas remain wealthy as poorer uses like industry are located farther from residential zones. While the Hoyt model explains growth patterns in some older cities, it does not account for factors like private automobile use, edge cities, or changes to downtown business districts over time. Physical geography and leapfrog development can also impact sector growth.
Stormwater management aims to reduce surface runoff from rain and snowmelt by promoting infiltration and replenishing groundwater. It is important in urban areas with many impervious surfaces to prevent flooding and pollution. Traditional methods only moved water away, while modern approaches try to restore natural water cycles through retention basins, infiltration basins, bioswales, green roofs, and low impact development techniques. Calculating surface runoff estimates how much water will flow over an area based on its size, average rainfall, and surface type to help design effective drainage systems.
Central Place Theory proposes that settlements function as market centers that provide goods and services to surrounding hinterlands. The hierarchy and distribution of settlements is based on their functions and the distances people will travel. Larger central places with more services are farther apart and include the hinterlands of smaller places. The theory uses hexagonal tessellation and assumptions about uniform landscapes to model how central places are spatially arranged. While a simplification, the central place model explains real hierarchies and relationships between human settlements.
The rank size rule attempts to establish a numerical relationship between population sizes of settlements within a country or region. It ranks settlements by population size, with the largest first. It assumes the second largest settlement will be half the population of the largest, the third largest a third, and so on. While variations often occur, it provides a model for comparing city population distributions. Exceptions include primate cities, where one city dominates population size, and binary distributions, where two cities are of almost equal size.
1. The document discusses various location theories proposed by Alfred Weber, Hotelling, Christaller, Hoover, Losch, and Isard.
2. Weber's location theory from 1909 proposed that firms choose locations where costs are lowest, considering factors like raw material costs, transportation costs, and labor costs.
3. Hotelling's location theory from 1929 examined how two competing firms on a linear city would choose locations to maximize market coverage.
Central Place Theory proposes that settlements are arranged in a hierarchy based on their provision of goods and services. It assumes an even distribution of resources, population, and transportation costs. Central places provide market areas for goods and services, with higher-order settlements offering a wider range of goods and services to larger market areas. The theory outlines three principles: the marketing principle minimizes the number of settlements; the transportation principle minimizes road lengths; and the administrative principle ensures smaller market areas are enclosed within larger ones. Central Place Theory provides a framework for understanding urban hierarchies and has been applied to market planning and development projects, though its assumptions do not always reflect real-world conditions.
This document summarizes land use theory and economics. It discusses the functions of land including as a location for raw materials, capital goods, agriculture, and housing. Land rent theory is explained, with the rent determined by production, costs, and transportation costs. The quality and intensity of land use is related to distance from markets, according to Von Thünen, with the most intensive use closest to markets. Ricardo added that land quality also impacts intensity, with higher quality land used more intensively. Land prices are determined by discounting future rents. Applications show relationships between population density and productivity and fertilizer use.
This document introduces concepts in regional economics and spatial analysis. It discusses the key theories of Von Thünen's land rent theory and Weber's location theory. Von Thünen tried to explain land productivity and intensity of use based on rent. Weber's location theory focused on minimizing transportation and labor costs. The document also defines important spatial concepts like economic space, locations, routes, and regions. It previews how subsequent chapters will apply location theory to producers and consumers and cover regional development theory.
Chapter 4: Modern Location Theory of the FirmDISPAR
This document discusses modern location theory of the firm. It covers several topics:
- Neoclassical location theory which assumes substitutability of production inputs using a Cobb-Douglas production function.
- A two dimensional optimization problem to determine optimal location and input levels.
- The concept of growth poles which are geographic concentrations of economic activity that can stimulate regional growth.
- Core-periphery theory which describes how economic growth becomes concentrated in core regions.
- Agglomeration and externalities and how spatial equilibrium can be stable or unstable based on these factors.
- Spatial monopoly and duopoly models and how firm locations are determined under different market structures.
- Optimal location from a
This chapter discusses regional disparities and inequalities. It begins with the principles of regional economics and analysis. It then examines the economic structures of three regions - Greece, the Netherlands, and Ireland - compared to the EU15 average in 1992. Shift-share analysis is introduced to evaluate employment changes between industries and regions. Measures of regional disparity are discussed, including the Gini coefficient. Structural funds allocation is analyzed in relation to changing regional income distribution in the EU. Applications look at regional disparities in Romania from 1998-2002 using population, GDP, area data and Gini coefficient calculations.
Chapter 8: Intraregional and Interregional RelationsDISPAR
This document discusses intraregional and interregional relations and input-output analysis. It covers input-output tables, agro-clusters in the Netherlands and how they are defined using value added from agriculture and agribusiness sectors. Interregional input-output models are discussed along with how they can be used to calculate regional multipliers. Methods for deriving regional input-output tables from national tables using location quotients are also presented. The document concludes by providing an application example of analyzing tourism in Slovenia.
This document summarizes key concepts around the location of consumers from an economics perspective. It discusses factors that influence where consumers live like distance to work and services, housing costs, and available space. It then examines empirical patterns like the rank size rule/Zipf's law which shows a power law relationship between city size and rank. Other topics covered include the relationship between urbanization and income levels across countries, migration trends, and microeconomic models of household location decisions. Figures and examples from the Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Germany, London, Amsterdam and Paris are provided.
This document discusses interregional trade theory including export base theory, a two region model, a multi-regional model, and applications. It covers John Maynard Keynes' contributions, examples of regional multipliers in the Netherlands, a two region model for the province of Drenthe, and a multi-regional EU trade model with examples.
Chapter 9: Transportation and Migration of FirmsDISPAR
This document summarizes different concepts related to transportation and migration of firms from an economics perspective. It discusses the concept of gravity models which describe interaction between locations based on weights and distance. It also describes using linear programming to minimize transportation costs with production and demand constraints. Additionally, it explains how graphs and Markov chains can be used to model transportation networks and migration patterns between regions over time.
The document describes a spatial equilibrium model developed for Costa Rica that includes 17 agricultural products, 6 regions, and an international market region. The model accounts for transport costs between regions, tariffs, and import/export quotas. The purpose is to optimize production, consumption, and transport flows between regions given different supply and demand conditions. A graphical and mathematical model is presented and analyzed using an example involving welfare calculations for two regions with and without trade.
The document discusses theories of core-periphery relationships and development disparities between countries and regions. It provides examples of how Malaysia exhibits a core-periphery structure with the more developed urban core centered around Kuala Lumpur and the less developed rural periphery of states like Sarawak. Government policy has promoted industrialization in the core through foreign investment and export processing, creating unequal prosperity and internal divisions. While tourism development provides income, it risks environmental degradation if not managed sustainably.
the major theories of industrial location were developed by the economists. some of them which we consider pioneering and useful in understanding the locational behaviour of firm are explained here.
Two major theories namely :(1) Weber's Theory. (2) The market area theory of Tord Palander.
Chapter 6 Urban Land Rent - Urban Economics 6th EditionParamita E.
Urban Economics 6th Edition by Arthur O'Sullivan.
This is a brief presentation of Chapter 6. Urban Land Rent, with some cases from Indonesia and some other parts of the world.
Presentation by Roger Stough, George Mason University
Advanced Brainstorm Carrefour (ABC): ‘Smart People in Smart Cities’ Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (August, 2016)
1. Firms make location decisions based on profit maximization by minimizing transportation costs of inputs and outputs. This includes considering factors like input transportability, localization economies, taxes, and public services.
2. The principle of median location predicts firms will locate at the point that equally splits total monetary weight of inputs and outputs being transported. This minimizes combined procurement and distribution transportation costs.
3. Urbanization economies from access to markets, labor, and intermediate goods pull firms toward large cities, while transportation costs of certain inputs may push firms closer to input sources. Labor availability and costs also influence location choices.
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1. Space and Economics
Chapter 3: Classical Location Theory of the Firm
Author
Wim Heijman (Wageningen, the Netherlands)
July 21, 2009
2. 3. Classical location theory of the firm
3.1 Minimization of transportation costs: one final
product
3.2 Minimization of transportation costs: one
resource, one final product
3.3 Trans shipment costs
3.4 Other location factors
3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location of the firm
3.6 The Theory of the market areas
3.7 Spatial elasticity of demand
3.8 Market forms: spatial duopoly
3.9 Application
3. 3.1 Minimization of transportation costs: one final product
Location of one ice cream vendor on the beach
Customers equally distributed over the beach
Customers have equal preferences for ice cream
The lower the average distance between ice cream vendor
and customers the more ice cream will be sold
4. 3.1 Minimization of transportation costs: one final product
100m 100m 100m 100m
A B C D E
Figure 3.1: Beach with five visitors.
5. 3.1 Minimization of transportation costs: one final product
0 m + 100 m + 200 m + 300 m + 400 m
A: = 200 m,
5
100 m + 0 m + 100 m + 200 m + 300 m
B: = 140 m,
5
200 m + 100 m + 0 m + 100 m + 200 m
C: = 120 m,
5
300 m + 200 m + 100 m + 0 m + 100 m
D: = 140 m,
5
400 m + 300 m + 200 m + 100 m + 0 m
E: = 200 m.
5
6. 3.1 Minimization of transportation costs: one final product
Average 210
distance
200
190
180
170
160
150
140
130
120
110
A B C E
D
Location
7. 3.1 Minimization of transportation costs: one final product
3
Figure 3.3:
Optimum location in
a two dimensional
space.
2
b
a
1
A B C
8. 3.2 Minimization of transportation costs: one resource, one final product
ta tb
A B
S
100 km
Figure 3.4: Location of a firm that produces only one product with the help of one
raw material
9. 3.2 Minimization of transportation costs: one resource, one final product
K = ata f a + btb f b
t b = 100 − t a ,
a :1000; b :100; f a = fb = 0.10
K = 0.10 ⋅1000t a + 100 ⋅ (100 − t a ) ⋅ 0.10 = 1000 + 90t a .
10. 3.2 Minimization of transportation costs: one resource, one final product
K 11
10
9
8
7 K = 1000 + 90 x ta
6
x €1000
5
4
3
2
1
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 km
A B
ta
Figure 3.5: Minimization of transportation costs with one input and one product.
11. 3.3 Trans shipment costs
* Trans shipment costs are costs that are made
when the transportation mode changes.
* For example, in a sea port, the cargo may be
transported further to the hinterland by truck, rail
or inland waterways.
* Trans shipment costs are normally expressed in
money units per weight unit (e.g. euro’s per ton)
12. 3.3 Trans shipment costs
S O
G M
tg tm
T
Figure 3.6: Location S of a business with transshipment location O
13. 3.3 Trans shipment costs
K = gt g f g + mt m f m + mom + gog ,
tm = T − t g ,
K = ( gf g − mf m )t g + mf mT + mog + gom .
14. 3.3 Trans shipment costs
In the case of trans shipment costs the optimum
location is found with:
K g = mf mT + mom ,
K m = gf gT + gog ,
K o = ( gf g − mf m )t g + mf mT .
16. 3.4 Other location factors
Apart from transportation costs there are two
other important location factors:
labour costs;
agglomeration benefits or external economies of
scale.
17. 3.4 Other location factors
Agglomeration: a spatial clustering of interacting
firms that is mutually beneficial because it
generates a decrease in production costs
Deglomeration: spatial deconcentration of firms
because of external diseconomies of scale
18. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
y
yc C
tc
ys S
tb
ta
xb
A xc xs B x
Figure 3.8: Location triangle.
23. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
t a = xs2 + y s2 , tb = y s2 + ( xb − xs ) 2 , t c = ( xs − xc ) 2 + ( yc − y s ) 2 .
K = at a f a + bt b f b + ct c f c ,
K = af a xs2 + y s2 + bf b y s2 + ( xb − xs ) 2 + cf c ( xs − xc ) 2 + ( yc − y s ) 2 .
∂K ∂K
= = 0.
∂x s ∂y s
24. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
+60 -70
V
+40
+20
S
-10
W
Figure 3.10: Transportation cost optimum with isodapanes.
25. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
+60 +60
+40 +40
+20 +20
S1 S S2
-60
Figure 3.11: Agglomeration benefits.
26. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
y 30
20 +60
+40
10
+20 Spatial margin
to profitability
30 20 10 0 10 20 30
x y =0
10
20
30
100 100
Total Revenue Spatial
80 80
Cost curve
60 60
40 40
20 20 Production costs
y =0
30 20 10 0 10 20 30
Figure 3.12: Spatial margins to profitability.
Figure 3.12: Spatial margins to profitability.
27. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
y
yc 40 C y =40
y =35
y =30
tc
y =25
y =20
y =15
ys S
y =10
ta tb
y=5
xb
y =0
A xc xs B x
20 60
Figure 3.13: Sections in the location triangle.
28. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
y =40
K 110
y =35
105 y =30
100 y =25
y =20
95
y =15
90 y =10
y =5
y =0
85
80
76,44
75
70
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 x
5 15 25 35 45 55
Figure 3.14: Transportation cost curves of a classical location problem.
29. 3.5 Alfred Weber’s theory on location
K = 0.5 xs2 + y s2 + y s2 + (60 − xs ) 2 + ( xs − 20) 2 + (40 − y s ) 2 .
K
Figure 3.15: 3 D presentation of the transportation cost function.
33. 3.6 The theory of market areas
Market area A Market area B
Prices
and Pa
costs Pb
Fa Fb
O A G B Z
Distance
Figure 3.17: Palander’s market areas
34. 3.6 The theory of market areas
quantity
distance
B A
distance O distance
distance
Figure 3.18: Quantity consumed as a function of the distance to the location of the
producer (O); the spatial demand function.
35. 3.6 The theory of market areas
Figure 3.19: Seven firms with their market areas.
36. 3.6 The theory of market areas
Figure 3.20: Hexagonal structure and hierarchy of central places.
37. 3.7 Spatial elasticity of demand
∆q
% change in demand q ∆q x dq x
Es =
d
= = ≈ .
% change in distance ∆x ∆x q dx q
x
−α
q = Kx .
−α −1
− αKx x
E = d
s −α
= −α .
Kx
38. 3.7 Spatial elasticity of demand
12
10
8
q 6
4
2
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19
x
Figure 3.21: Spatial demand curve with fixed spatial demand elasticity of 1.
39. 3.8 Market forms: spatial duopoly
1
A B
2
B A
3
A B
4
B A
5
A B
Figure 3.22: Spatial duopoly: Hotelling’s Law.
40. 3.8 Market forms: spatial duopoly
Hotelling’s Law:
spatial competition leads to clustering of competitors in the
centre
Hotelling’s Law is based on a zero spatial demand elasticity:
In terms of game theory Hotelling’s Law describes a Nash
Equilibrium α = 0.
Hotelling’s Law is also used by political scientists to explain
the positioning of candidates running for a political position:
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