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Sample Areas of Research Topics

BLUE LIST (Examples)

Agglomeration Economies
Agricultural Land Use Theory
Bayesian Location Decision Criteria and/or Processes
Bid Price Curves
Centralization and Decentralization Processes
Central Place Theory
Distance Elasticity of Demand
Downsizing
Externalities and "Spillovers"
Environmental trade-offs in locational behaviors
Face-to-Face Communication & Location
(Locational) Flexibility
Flexible Specialization
Footlooseness
Game-Theoretical Decision Criteria
Garbage Can Theory of Choice
General Equilibrium in Space
Hagerstrand's Time-Space Prism + Constraints
History of Location-Theoretical Ideas
Hotelling Phenomenon
Information Centers (as a regional policy concept)
Industrial Mobility & Relocation
Investment: Location as an Investment Problem
"Joint" Problems in Locational Theorizing
- Joint-Production Problems
- Joint-Consumption Problems
- Multiple-Purpose Behaviors in Shopping, Business Travel etc.
"Just-in-Time" (kanban) Delivery / Interaction Systems
Learning (in spatial contexts)
Local Labor Markets (Theoretical Concepts)
Locational Imitation
Locational Inertia
Learning Organization
Network Economies
Network Organizations
NIMBY: Not in My Backyard
Periodicity of Markets
"Place" and "Locality"
Productivity and Locational Change
Restructuring
Scale- versus Scope Economies
Spatial Competition
Spatial Monopoly
Spatial Pricing/ Price Discrimination
Substitution (as micro-economic and/or behavioral process)
Time-Space Convergence
Transaction Costs
Uncertainty
Weberian Location Theory

RED LIST (Examples)

Educational Spatial Systems

Environmental Pollution and Location

Financial (Banking) Centers

Headquarter Locations

Health Care Delivery Systems

High-Tech Industrial and/or Service Location

Home Delivery or "House-Calls".

Information and Communications Services

Library Systems

Mergers and/or Acquisitions

Noxious Facility Locations

Office Location

Professional Sports Stadium Issues

Public Facility Location Problems

Recreational Spatial Behaviors

Research & Development Locations

Residential Location Behavior

Retail Activities

Second Homes

Second Wage Earners & Residential Locations

Shopping Centers

Strategic Alliances

Super Store Retail Phenomenon

Tourist & Tourism Location Problems

Urban Parks

Urban Transportation (Locational Issues)

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