Old School Economic Geography: Central Place Theory

• Assumptions
• Threshold
• Range
• Order of a Good
• High and Low order goods
• High and Low Order Places
• Geographical Pattern of Central Places
• Critiques of Central Place Theory

Globalization of Retailing

• Speed, Scale, and Imact
• Global Homogenization of Retail?

Changing Retail Location at the Urban Scale

• Decentralization
• Centralization
• Changing Retail Locaiton in Valparaiso