Plattner's Comparisons of China and Guatemala 2. Marketing system can be geared to centralized control Facilitates exchange with bias to the center 3. Underdevelopment is perpetuated Lack of horizontal connections to facilitate specialization Vertical connections disadvantage theperiphery Rural Market Networks Farmers cannot compete with manuf.
Capital flows out of system to developed country for reinvestment.
Theory Posits Centralization and Hierarchy in Human Settlements Uniformity of settlement landscape Shape of center and complementary area Number of central places Levels of hierarchy Pattern of Nesting Assumptions 1. Featureless Landscape 2. Transport equal in all directions 3. Population equally distributed in lower level settlements without markets 4. All commercial actions are economically motivated 5.