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In Chapter 1 we discussed the location of a single firm, given the locations of input supplies and output demand. The obvious next question would be: Suppose there are several firms to be located in the plane. What would the spacing of the various firms look like?
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Puu, T. (2003). Market Areas. In: Mathematical Location and Land Use Theory. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24785-2_5
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