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

External Urban Relational Process: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place... Central place hierarchies have been the traditional basis for understanding externalurban relations. However, in contemporary studies of these relations, a new emphasison urban networks has emerged. Rather than either abandoning or extending centralplace thinking, it is here treated as representing one of two generic processes ofexternal urban relations. Town-ness is the making of ‘local’ urban—hinterlandrelations and ‘city-ness’ is the making of ‘non-local’ interurban relations. Centralplace theory describes the former through an interlocking hierarchical model; thispaper proposes a central flow theory to describe the latter through an interlockingnetwork model. The key difference is the level of complexity in the twoprocesses. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Urban Studies SAGE

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

Urban Studies , Volume 47 (13): 16 – Nov 1, 2010

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SAGE
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© 2010 Urban Studies Journal Limited
ISSN
0042-0980
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1360-063X
DOI
10.1177/0042098010377367
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Abstract

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

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Urban StudiesSAGE

Published: Nov 1, 2010

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