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Give an account of the functional bases of central place hierarchy.

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  • Settlement Geography

A central place hierarchy orders settlements by the goods and services they supply to territories larger than themselves. Its bases are economic, not demographic: threshold, range, centrality and the nesting of complementary areas decide which functions a place can hold, and the functions fix its rank. Christaller (1933) derived the logic deductively; Berry and Garrison…

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  • What the Hierarchy Is Built From
  • Threshold and Range: The Two Economic Levers
  • Why the Ordering Becomes a Discrete Hierarchy
  • Measuring the Functional Base
  • The Empirical Record
  • Where the Functional Basis Weakens
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