Where Do Centers Come From?

M H Krieger
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M H Krieger: School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0042, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1987, vol. 19, issue 9, 1251-1260

Abstract: A ‘center’ is a marked place in space or time or in a collection of objects, and surrounding it is a structure or pattern that supports it. The questions that concern us here are: ‘Why are there centers at all?’ ‘Why is a center at a particular X ?’ Historical and combinatorial processes of centralization are reviewed, and a phenomenology and mechanisms are provided. Models considered include: stochastic markets with increasing returns to scale, codes as in DNA, combinatoric processes as in statistical mechanics, and differentiation in biology. Polycenters.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1068/a191251

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