Reviews: Central Place Theory, Gravity and Spatial Interaction Models, Industrial Location, Scientific Geography Series, Computer-Assisted Cartography: Principles and Prospects

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 493-496
Author(s):  
A C Gatrell ◽  
I J Bracken
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Industrial Location ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Central Place Theory ◽  
Interaction Models ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
Spatial Interaction Models ◽  
Series Computer

On the Relationship between Alonso's Theory of Movement and Wilson's Family of Spatial-Interaction Models

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Ledent
Keyword(s):  
Input Data ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
System Of Equations ◽  
Interaction Models ◽  
Spatial Interaction Models ◽  
Standard Family ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Standard Models ◽  
The Relationship

This paper compares the system of equations underlying Alonso's theory of movement with that of Wilson's standard family of spatial-interaction models. It is shown that the Alonso model is equivalent to one of Wilson's four standard models depending on the assumption at the outset about which of the total outflows and/or inflows are known. This result turns out to supersede earlier findings—inconsistent only in appearance—which were derived independently by Wilson and Ledent. In addition to this, an original contribution of this paper—obtained as a byproduct of the process leading to the aforementioned result—is to provide an exact methodology permitting one to solve the Alonso model for each possible choice of the input data.

Effects of scale in spatial interaction models

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Arbia ◽  
Francesca Petrarca
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Interaction Models ◽  
Spatial Interaction Models

Rational-Choice Models and Asian Studies

1991 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Little
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Transport Cost ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Central Place Theory ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
The Individual

The rational-choice paradigm has been attractive to many area specialists in their efforts to arrive at explanations of social and political behavior in various parts of the world. This model of explanation is simple yet powerful; we attempt to explain a pattern of social behavior or an enduring social arrangement as the aggregate outcome of the goal-directed choices of large numbers of rational agents. Why did the Nian rebellion occur? It was the result of the individual-level survival strategies of north China peasants (Perry 1980). Why did the central places of late imperial Sichuan conform to the hexagonal arrays predicted by central-place theory? Because participants—consumers, merchants, and officials—made rational decisions based on considerations of transport cost (Skinner 1964–65). Why was late imperial Chinese agriculture stagnant? Because none of the actors within the agricultural system had both the incentive and the capacity to invest in agricultural innovation (Lippit 1987).

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