This model explains and predicts patterns of urban places across the map. In his model, Christaller analyzed the hexagonal, hierarchical pattern of cities, villages, towns, and hamlets arranged according to their varying degrees of centrality, determined by the central place functions existing in urban places and the hinterlands they serve.
Assumptions:
- Flat plane with uniform geography and nature
- Uniform population
- single mode of transportation
- evolution towards the growth of cities
- all persons have a similar income
- all persons have similar consumption patterns