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Services
services
| Services | services |
|---|---|
| consumer services | businesses that provides services primarily for indivuidual consumers, inluding retail services, and personal services. |
| retail services | services that provide goods for sale to consumers. |
| personal services | services that provide for the well-being nd personal improvement of individual consumers. |
| business services | services that pirmarily meet the needs of other businesses. |
| producer services | services that primarily help people conduct business. |
| transportation and information services | services that diffuse and distribute services. |
| public services | services offered by the government to provide security and protection for cititzens and businesses. |
| clustered rural settlement | a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement. |
| dispersed rural settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. |
| inclosure movement | the process of consolodating small land-holdings into a smaller number of larger fams in England during the 18th century. |
| market area/hinterland | the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the places, goods, and services. |
| central place | a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. |
| range | the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. |
| central place theory | explains the distribution of services b/c settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer & farther apart than smaller settlements & provide services for a larger # of people who are willing to travel farther. |
| threshold | the minimum # of people needed to supprto a sevice. |
| gravity model | a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a aprticular location is directly related to the # of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. |
| rank-size rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the 'n'th largest settlement is 1/n the population of he largest settlement. |
| primate city rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that thge larger settlement has more tha twice as many people as the 2nd ranknig settlement. |
| primate city | the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the 2nd-ranking settlement. |
| city-state | independant self-governing communities that included the settlement and nearby countryside. |
| basic industries | industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement. |
| nonbasic industries | industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. |
| economic base | a community's collection of basic industries. |
| central business district (CBD) | "the downtown area"; the area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered. |
| service | any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. |
| settlement | a permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. |
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