7. Analysis Questions?
1. Will Big Square open a new branch within a year?
2. Where will Big Square open the new branch?
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9. Central Place Theory
● A geographical theory that seeks to explain
the number, size and location of human
settlement in an urban system.
● Settlements are simply functioned as
‘central places’ providing services to
surrounding areas.
10. ● Threshold : minimum market (population or income)
needed to bring about the selling of a particular good
or service.
● Range : maximum distance consumers are prepared
to travel to acquire goods
Principles
Franchise models operate like an Ideal gas where all molecules/atoms are the same or behave in a similar manner. School filters and terror attacks have too much variation (entropy) hence have less predictability.
Blank slate
Current Big Square Outlets
The result of these consumer preferences is that a system of centers of various sizes will emerge.
Each center will supply particular types of goods forming levels of hierarchy.
From this he deduced that settlements would tend to form in a triangular/hexagonal lattice, this being the most efficient pattern to serve areas without any overlap
The theory was created by the German geographer Walter Christaller.