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Chapter 12 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Settlement | a permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants |
consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers |
business services | services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses |
public services | services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
central place theory | a theory that explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlement serve as centers of market areas for services |
central place | a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
market area (hinterland) | the area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the places goods and services |
range | max distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
threshold | the minimum number of people needed to support a service |
hamlet | |
rank-size | a pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
primate city rule | a pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement |
primate city | the largest settlement in a country if it has more than twice as many people as the second ranking settlement |
gravity model | model which holds that 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 surface |
global city | |
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 communities collection of basic industries |
clustered rural settlement | a rural settlement in which the house and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other with fields surrounding the settlement |
dispersed rural settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
enclosure movement | the process of consolidating small land holdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the 18th cen |