Laws of geography

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Distance decay Tobler's first law of geography Spatial laws

Central place theory: does the hexagonal market pattern still describe real towns? Is a law of geography a real law or just a strong empirical regularity? Nearest neighbour analysis: testing whether a point pattern is clustered or random Spatial autocorrelation: why nearby places resemble each other more than chance allows Tobler's first law: everything is related to everything else but near things are more related The rank-size rule: why a country's largest city is often twice the size of the second Gravity models of interaction: how population and distance predict trips between two places Distance decay explains why your second nearest hospital may be your usual one Tobler's second law: why what happens outside a region shapes what happens inside The modifiable areal unit problem: how redrawing a boundary changes the answer you get First law of geography vs the death of distance — which one does the evidence support? Does Tobler's first law still hold in a world of instant communication?

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