title: Settlement formation. Part I: a dynamic theory.
abstract: "The dynamic process of settlement formation is a fundamental issue in regional science.  Our proposed model integrates the economic and migratory sectors in terms of endogenous variables in order to describe the evolution of continuous population distributions as a self-organising process.... The purpose...is to show that under strongly idealised conditions, a population consisting of different subpopulations with different economic activities will evolve into a differentiated population pattern.  Each member of the subpopulations has the possibility to migrate between locations stimulated by rational economic reasons.  This idea, which seems almost self-evident on the level of qualitative argumentation, [will] be cast into a mathematically self-contained quantitative dynamic model."
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weidlich
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Munz
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005843:Geography; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009042:Motivation; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011584:Psychology; D012106:Research; D012942:Social Sciences; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Behavior; Demographic Factors; Demography; Economic Conditions; Economic Factors; Economic Model; Geographic Factors; Macroeconomic Factors; Mathematical Model; Migration--determinants; Models, Theoretical; Motivation; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Theory; Psychological Factors; Research Methodology; Social Sciences; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution--changes; World