Central Place Theory & Neighborhood Unit: Dr. Ir. Firmansyah, MT
Central Place Theory & Neighborhood Unit: Dr. Ir. Firmansyah, MT
Central Place Theory & Neighborhood Unit: Dr. Ir. Firmansyah, MT
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NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT
Oleh :
Dr. Ir. Firmansyah, MT
Central Places
Walter Christaller (Germany)
As a complement to the earliest location theory
(Johann Von Thunen)
Agricultural land use around market centers
Assumption:
1. Flat area, homogeneous plain in which there were no barriers to movement,
this permitting uninhibited travel in all direction
2. A dispersed rural farm population regularly spaced over this uniform
territory and an ideal spacing of settlements
3. Human behavior:
.Consumer will always purchase, from the closest central place that offer a
particular good
.Whenever threshold purchasing power for a good will offer the good;
whenever demand for a good drops below threshold, the good will be we
longer offered
Central Places Theory
actors are economically rational in their behavior and
have perfect knowledge of all shopping alternatives
Consumer minimize distance
Entrepreneur - have knowledge of the business environment
- make rapid adjustments to change in purchasing power
Centrality
Threshold
Minimum amount of monetary support (in the form of sales)
necessary for such an entrepreneur to break even on business
investments
Level of Communities
Hamlet
Village
Town
City
Regional capital
Central functions and Threshold Sizes
CENTRAL PLACE THEORY
Christallers dispersion model of central places and
their hierarchy, based on the marketing principle
METODE/TEKNIK ANALISIS
Function :
- maintenance : environment, facility, utility
- learning : school
- control : zoning
- play : open space, taman bermain
(C.J. Bushnell)