A Note on Central Place Theory and the Range of a Good

Od NE important element in central place theory is the notion of the range of a good.1 This range marks out the zone or tributary area around a central place (urban center) from which persons travel to the center to purchase the good, ". . a product of the simultaneous spatial effects of all the factors of demand and supply involved in the purchase of central goods and services. "2 The upper limit of the range is the maximum possible radius of sales. Beyond the upper limit the price of the good is too high for it to be sold, either because of the increase of price with distance until consumers will no longer purchase the good (the ideal limit where demand becomes zero), or because of the greater proximity of consumers to an alternate competing center (the real limit). The range also has a lower limit, that radius