Relaxing the nearest centre assumption in central place theory

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 157-177

  South, Robert ^a   Boots, Barry ^b  

^a Distr Personal Comml Fin Serv   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central place theory; Choice rules; Generalised Voronoi diagrams; Market areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012323010     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1999.tb00738.x     Document Type: Article

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