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Two Centrality Models

Two Centrality Models RICHARD E. PRESTON" The basic distinctions between these two terms and their relations central place theory as originally proposed by Christaller in 1933. Centrality and nodality are two essential concepts of classical have not been fully taken into account by many persons trying to develop and apply central place theory during the three decades since its formulation.1 In addition, Centrality itself has hitherto been * Dr. Preston is a Professor of Geography at San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, California 91324. Research was supported by the San Fernando Valley State College Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The author acknowledges helpful criticism of his colleagues, Arnold Court, Morton Scripter, and I-Shou Wang and of Bill Griffin of Western Illinois University. 1 Christaller differentiated clearly between "absolute importance" ( called Nodality here) and "relative importance" or Centrality. Nevertheless, scholars have consistently evaluated central places by measures of absolute importance, associated the term Centrality with their derived values, and then related their findings to classical central place theory as if such measurements met the requirements of Centrality as originally defined. This point can be abundantly demonstrated by comparing "absolute importance" and Centrality as defined in W. Christaller, Central Places in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers University of Hawai'I Press

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RICHARD E. PRESTON" The basic distinctions between these two terms and their relations central place theory as originally proposed by Christaller in 1933. Centrality and nodality are two essential concepts of classical have not been fully taken into account by many persons trying to develop and apply central place theory during the three decades since its formulation.1 In addition, Centrality itself has hitherto been * Dr. Preston is a Professor of Geography at San Fernando Valley State College, Northridge, California 91324. Research was supported by the San Fernando Valley State College Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The author acknowledges helpful criticism of his colleagues, Arnold Court, Morton Scripter, and I-Shou Wang and of Bill Griffin of Western Illinois University. 1 Christaller differentiated clearly between "absolute importance" ( called Nodality here) and "relative importance" or Centrality. Nevertheless, scholars have consistently evaluated central places by measures of absolute importance, associated the term Centrality with their derived values, and then related their findings to classical central place theory as if such measurements met the requirements of Centrality as originally defined. This point can be abundantly demonstrated by comparing "absolute importance" and Centrality as defined in W. Christaller, Central Places in

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Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Oct 1, 1970

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