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This book has three basic objectives. The first objective is to identify the observed regularities in location decisions. This involves examining and answering questions such as: Why do public and private facilities locate themselves the way they do? What factors do real estate developers consider when picking sites for development? Why do people live in a certain location, and why do they often work in a location different from where they live? Why are focal points such as airports, terminals, and depots situated at certain nodes in a network? Throughout this book, we will try to answer some of these questions, so that readers can judiciously locate facilities and guide development toward desired goals.
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?”
Victor Hugo
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Chan, Y. (2011). Introduction. In: Location Theory and Decision Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15663-2_1
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