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ABSTRACTABSTRACTThe provision of services for small-holders' land settlement entails an efficient spatial organization that will minimize redundancy and maximize the number of consumers per center without impairing access. Efficiency is defined as the combined effect of economy, accessibility, and structure, and is assessed be means of graphical models, representing varying sizes of family-farm holdings that are common in current rural development projects. The models confirm that with the same population density per area, the efficiency of services is higher in concentrated settlement patterns and can be further improved by the transfer of service functions from lower to higher ranking centers.
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Jacob O. Maos (1983) studied this question.
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