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Discuss the applicability of Christaller’s Central Place Theory.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Models, Theories and Laws

Walter Christaller (1933) offered a normative answer to the question of settlement spacing — where central places should be if only threshold, range and rational travel operated — and normative models are judged by how usefully reality departs from them, not by whether reality matches.

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