Central Place Theory attempts to predict various orders of central places, markets they serve, etc. It applies to those settlements that are predominately concerned with serving the need of the surrounding area. The significance of their service role can’t be measured simply by the population of the place. There are different orders to good and services. Some are costly, bought infrequently and need large populations to support them, others are everyday items that require …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…serve. Criticisms of Christaller’s model include that its not applicable to all settlements, it doesn’t take into account of random historical events, makes unrealistic assumptions about the information levels required to make rational economic decisions, it ignores the variety of individual circumstances, it assumes very little governmental influence on the business location and decisions, and it is a static formulation that relates to the distribution of service centers in one point in time.