An Alternative Approach to the Classification of Urban Hierarchies

1 January 1970

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in South African Geographical Journal

Vol. 52 (1) , 129-133
https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.1970.10559473

Abstract

The use of scatter diagrams in classifying urban hierarchies is criticised and a brief outline of a taxonomic multi-property classification which allows for quality differences between centres to be considered is presented.

Keywords

URBAN HIERARCHIES
CLASSIFYING URBAN
PROPERTY CLASSIFICATION
TAXONOMIC MULTI
MULTI PROPERTY
BRIEF OUTLINE
SCATTER DIAGRAMS

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