GaWC Research Bulletin 59  GaWC logo   Gateways into GaWC  This
Research Bulletin has been published in Stadt und Region:
Dynamik von Lebenswelten, Tagungsbericht und wissenschaftliche
Abhandlungen, 53. Deutscher Geographentag Leipzig, 29. September
bis 5. Oktober 2001. Edited by A Mayr, M Meurer and J Vogt.
Leipzig: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie, 2002, 110-128.
Please refer to the published version when quoting the paper.
Christaller for a Global Age: Redrawing the Urban Hierarchy  P.
Hall  Just under seventy years ago, Walter Christaller published
his famous study of central places in Southern Germany. Later
discredited by reason of its use by the Nazi administration in
the planning of occupied territory in eastern Europe, it was
nevertheless a pioneering attempt to apply spatial modelling in
geography. What is most interesting to the modern geographer,
however, is that the world it sought to describe and analyse has
so profoundly changed, that in important respects it has almost
ceased to exist.