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The quantification of geographic configurations of locations has a long and storied history, with much of its earliest work being devoted to point patterns. This work eventually produced spatial weights matrices, shape measures, geographic pattern indices, and families of two-dimensional spatial relationship functions. Its overall focus has been on geographic structure, either contiguous or hierarchical in nature. This chapter treats structural indicates in terms of distance decay effects and the dispersion of economic activities, two of a number of different features characterizing spatial organizations. |
