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services
Question | Answer |
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Name: types of services | consumer, business, public |
define: consumer services | 1. Retail: provide goods for sale to consumers 2. personal: provide services for the well'being and personal improvment of consumers |
Define: business services | 1. Producer: provide services to help people conduct other business (agriculture) 2.Transportation and imfo: business that diffuse and distribute services |
define: Public services | to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
becaue of the increase in health-care, what service has increased? | personal services |
what: circular rual settlemant | consists of a central open space surrounded by structures |
What: Linear settlement | faeture building clustered along a road, river...to sacilitate communications |
what is more efficant: clustered settlements or dispersed settlements | dispersesed |
What: enclouser movement | in england (1750-1850) the govn't transformed the rual landscape by consolidating individually owned strips of land surrounding a village into a single farm (clustered to dispersed) |
what shape is used to represent market area? | pentagon |
Define: threshold | minimum # of people needed to support the service |
Define: range | how far a person will go for a service |
where is the best location for a linear settlement? | use the gravity model, put your service so that equal# of people live on eaither side, and the distance from the last costemer is equal on eaither side |
Define: rank-size rule | the country's nth-largest settlemant is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
Define: primate city rule | the largest settlement has more than 2 times the people as the 2nd largest |
Example: sector zone model | mexico city |
Example: multiple nuclei model | L.A. |
Example concentric model | chi-town |
Example: peripheral model | core: US (MDC) peripheral: LDC |