Planning Christallerian Landscapes: The Current Renaissance of Central Place Studies in East Germany

Christof Ellger

The Service Industries Journal, 1997, vol. 17, issue 1, 51-68

Abstract: With the central place concept still in use as a major instrument in German spatial planning, central place relationships are currently being investigated in the new federal states of East Germany and normative central place systems are being defined. The shortcomings of the central place concept - as a theory of economic space, a model for spatial description and analysis and as a planning strategy - are clear, but its potential should, nevertheless, not be neglected. Service supply relationships are by no means losing their relevance as elements of spatial interaction; and especially in attempts to create 'sustainable' spatial situations the concept can regain power due to its inbuilt spatial eficiency principle.

Date: 1997
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/02642069700000003 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:servic:v:17:y:1997:i:1:p:51-68

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/FSIJ20

DOI: 10.1080/02642069700000003

Access Statistics for this article

The Service Industries Journal is currently edited by Eileen Bridges, Professor Domingo Ribeiro, Ronald Goldsmith, Barry Howcroft and Youjae Yi

More articles in The Service Industries Journal from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().