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Basic industriesIndustries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
Business servicesServices that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services.
central business districtThe area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered.
central placeA market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.
central place theoryA distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller ones and provide services for a larger # of people who are willing to travel farther.
city-stareA sovereignty state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.
clustered rural settlementA rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are close to each other and fields surround the settlement.
Consumer servicesBusinesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services.
Dispersed rural settlementA rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.
economic baseA communities collection of basic industries.
enclosure movementA process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of large farms in England during the eighteenth century.
gravity modelA model that holds the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.
Market area (or hinterland)The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.
Nonbasic industeriesIndustries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.
Primate CityThe largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second -ranking settlement.
Primate city ruleA pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement.
Public servicesServices offered by government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.
Range (of a service)The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.
Rank-size ruleA pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.
ServiceAny activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.
SettlementA permanent collection of building and inhabitants.
ThresholdThe minimum number of people needed to support the service.