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Understanding the Weber Location Paradigm

In: Contributions to Location Analysis

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  • Richard L. Church

    (University of California at Santa Barbara)

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Location Science as a field started with the developments of von Thünen (1826), Launhardt (1872), Weber (1909), Christaller (1933), Hotelling (1990), Hoover (1937), and Lösch (1940). It further expanded with the developments of Isard (1949), Koopmans (1951a, b), Koopmans and Beckmann (1957), Moses (1958), Cooper (1963), Hakimi (1964, 1965), Balinski (1965), and Beckmann (1968). The problem of writing about Weber is that almost everyone in Location Science knows something about his “model.” What could possibly be new that has not been included in previous assessments, especially given that his book has been in print for over 100 years? That being said, the objective of this paper is to demonstrate from the perspective of the field of location science that Weber has been pigeonholed, misunderstood, and under-appreciated.

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  • Richard L. Church, 2019. "Understanding the Weber Location Paradigm," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: H. A. Eiselt & Vladimir Marianov (ed.), Contributions to Location Analysis, chapter 0, pages 69-88, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-030-19111-5_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19111-5_2
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    1. Drezner, Zvi & Eiselt, H.A., 2024. "Competitive location models: A review," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 316(1), pages 5-18.
    2. Pawel Kalczynski & Jack Brimberg & Zvi Drezner, 2022. "Less is more: discrete starting solutions in the planar p-median problem," TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 30(1), pages 34-59, April.
    3. Eiselt, H.A. & Marianov, Vladimir, 2020. "Maximizing political vote in multiple districts," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 72(C).
    4. Murray, Alan T. & Church, Richard L. & Feng, Xin, 2020. "Single facility siting involving allocation decisions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 284(3), pages 834-846.
    5. Kalczynski, Pawel & Drezner, Zvi, 2022. "The Obnoxious Facilities Planar p-Median Problem with Variable Sizes," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
    6. Zvi Drezner & Dawit Zerom, 2023. "Competitive facility location under attrition," Computational Management Science, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 1-19, December.
    7. Gökhan Altay & M. Hakan Akyüz & Temel Öncan, 2023. "Solving a minisum single facility location problem in three regions with different norms," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 321(1), pages 1-37, February.
    8. Richard L. Church & Zvi Drezner & Pawel Kalczynski, 2023. "Extensions to the planar p-median problem," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 326(1), pages 115-135, July.

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