GG102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Of Industrial Regions, Walter Christaller, Demographic Transition
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Gg102 lecture 5: refugees: people that have been displaced from their homes due to deterioration or dangers from local events or environment, refugees are a form of forced migration or migrating against the will of a person. Geodemographic research: investigation using census data and commercial data (such as sales data and property records) about the populations of small districts to create profiles of those populations for market research. In the 1930s a german geographer by the name of walter christaller came up with the idea of central place theory which was based on central places. The theory is based on christallers observations of. Southern germany where smaller towns were more numerous and were closely spaced to each other. These smaller towns offered a limited amount of shops and services which were considered the basics for living (convenience stores and markets). These smaller towns were located around larger towns.
