CENTRAL PLACE THEORY
CENTRAL PLACE THEORY German geographer Walter Cristeller is designated to be the first human Geography to have followed quantitative tradition in theory building, i.e. To involve in " treatment of the surface of the earth as isotropic plane and treatment of man as a rational economic creature ". Based on empirical studies of settlement in Southern Germany, Christaller attempted the first rational approach in the analysis of functional capacity and interdependence of different constituents of the settlement system. Apart from presuming constant demand prevailing in geographical space he also presumed consumers to be rational economic creatures willing to travel the least distance to attend desired goods and services. Identifying every settlement to be a Central Place that is a marketplace, providing goods and services to its own population along with the population of the lower-ranking settlement, h