Understanding the Weber Location Paradigm

Richard L. Church ()
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Richard L. Church: University of California at Santa Barbara

Chapter Chapter 2 in Contributions to Location Analysis, 2019, pp 69-88 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Location Science as a field started with the developments of von Thünen (1826), Launhardt (1872), Weber (1909), Christaller (1933), Hotelling (1990), Hoover (1937), and Lösch (1940). It further expanded with the developments of Isard (1949), Koopmans (1951a, b), Koopmans and Beckmann (1957), Moses (1958), Cooper (1963), Hakimi (1964, 1965), Balinski (1965), and Beckmann (1968). The problem of writing about Weber is that almost everyone in Location Science knows something about his “model.” What could possibly be new that has not been included in previous assessments, especially given that his book has been in print for over 100 years? That being said, the objective of this paper is to demonstrate from the perspective of the field of location science that Weber has been pigeonholed, misunderstood, and under-appreciated.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19111-5_2

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