Empirische Fundierung von Zentrale-Orte-Konzepten – Vorschlag für ein idealtypisches Vorgehen

The topic of “central places” (again) steadily gains relevance in spatial science as well as in regional planning. Emphasising the requirement to verify central-place concepts empirically, corresponding aims of comprehensive regional planning can be justified in a reasonable way. It has so far remained open which methodological demands have to relate to this validation and how in particular these specifications should be fulfilled. These questions form the background for this article. It introduces four optional approaches towards the empirical foundation of central-place concepts as an indispensable prerequisite for legal certainty and proposes in the end an iterative approach as ideal type.

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