Abstract
Many problems in regional and urban analysis have been investigated with the aid of analogies derived from the physical sciences. They include the gravity model and potential analysis in a wide variety of applications (migration, travel behavior, market attraction models, etc.), electric circuits to simulate spatial price analysis, thermodynamics in entropy quasi-equilibrium models, relativity theory in time-space analysis, energy transfers and the natural transport rate, the transmission of radio waves and diffusion analysis, and allometric growth in the theory of city size distributions. In only one or two cases have these analogues been made consistent with economics. While they have been useful and have added new insights, the analogies have frequently been diverting because of the user's close adherence to the
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