Vance Mercantile Model

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Vance Mercantile Model
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Burgess Parks Hoyt
Harris Ullman
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Burgess Parks Concentric Ring (Zone)
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Hoyt - Sector
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Harris Ullman Multiple Nuclei
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Gottman, Jarreau, Lewis expansions of urban
morphology
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• Urban Hierarchy A system of cities consisting
  of various levels, with few cities at the top
  level and increasingly more settlements on each
  lower level. The position of a city within the
  hierarchy is determined by the types of central
  place functions it provides.

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The packing problem How do you cover the
land, evenly, with a fair representation of
markets?
Hexagonal Market Areas
Unserved or overlap areas Zones of Indifference
Walter Christaller Die zentralen Orte in
Süddeutschland (1933)
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• Market Principles
• Central Place Function
• Range
• Threshold
• Is this a good business location?

Threshold
Range
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Boston, Massachusetts
589,141 Providence, Rhode Island
173,618 Worcester,
Massachusetts
172,648 Springfield, Massachusetts
152,082 Bridgeport,
Connecticut
139,529 Hartford, Connecticut
124,558 New Haven,
Connecticut
123,626 Stamford, Connecticut
117,083 Waterbury,
Connecticut
107,271 Manchester, New Hampshire
107,006 Lowell, Massachusetts
105,167
Cambridge, Massachusetts
101,355
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New England 14,239,724
City of Boston 589,141(red)
Metro Boston 3,066,394 (dark
blue) Greater Boston 4,411,835 (light
blue) Boston MSA (Core-Based Metro Area) (red,
inset) 4,391,344 (2008) 4,522,858 (2000)
2.99
Boston-Worcester-Manchester (MA-RI-NH) CSA
7,514,759 (5th largest (US)
52.8) Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
MSAProvidence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA
MSAWorcester, MA MSAManchester-Nashua, NH
MSAConcord, NH µSALaconia, NH µSA
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