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Chapter 12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Basic business | A business that sells its products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
| Business service | A service that primarily meets the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services |
| Central place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
| Central place theory | Explains the distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer, farther apart than smaller ones, provide services for a larger number of people by farther travel |
| Clustered rural settlement | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement |
| Consumer service | A service that primarily meets the needs of individual consumers, including retail, education, health and leisure services |
| Dispersed rural settlement | A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
| Economic base | A community's collection of basic business |
| Enclosure movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century |
| Food dessert | An area that has a substantial amount of low-income resident and has poor access to a grocery store, defined in most cases as further than one mile |
| Gravity model | A 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 service |
| Hinterland | The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services(also known as market area) |
| Market area | The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services(also known as hinterland) |
| Nonbasic business | A business that sells its products primarily to consumers in the same settlement |
| Primate city | A city that is the largest settlement in a country and has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking 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 |
| Public service | A service offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
| Range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
| Rank-size rule | A pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
| 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 |
| Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support a service |
| Urbanization | An increase in the percentage of and the number of people living in urban settlements |
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