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services
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |