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central place theory The size and spacing of central places, plus their hinterlands (left) and routes (right),

according to three variants of Christaller’s model: (a) the market principle, which minimizes the numbers of centres:

(b) the transport principle, which minimizes the road length: and (c) the administrative principle, in which

hinterlands are nested hierarchically

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