The optimization of the location of public services in the villages and neighborhoods in the city of Huambo in Angola results in a hierarchical system of central places that can be calibrated to give different hierarchies according to the accessibility level. This result is achieved for 300...

The conception of fuzzy central places (FCP), proposed by P. Em, made possible the understanding of the central functions' (CF) heterogenic distribution inside the urban agglomerations. The FCP is a bounded region of a set of points with CF. The correlation analysis proved a strong relation...

This paper examines whether population shrinkage leads to changes in the urban hierarchy in terms of relative sizes of cities and their functions onomic geography. We work backwards in a racetrack economy with eight cities in a long-run equilibrium. Initial distribution of population is chosen...

When a manufacturing firm projects to construct a factory, the firm searches a factory's location in large geographical area. The manufacturer does not determine immediately the factory's location site since the manufacturer could not have enough information of economic situation of possible...

Wie können angesichts von immer weniger und immer älteren Menschen Angebotsformen aussehen, die die Daseinsvorsorge insbesondere in ländlichen Räumen sichern und somit einen Beitrag zur Herstellung der Gleichwertigkeit der Lebensverhältnisse leisten? Ist mit Blick auf die demografische...

It is necessary for policy-makers to assess region's overall performance and given sector's efficiency relative to other industry sector's performance in the region to achieve regional policy objectives. Regional economics has attempted to develop techniques to analyze differences among regional...