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CHAPTER 12
STA -- SERVICES
| WORD | DEFINITION |
|---|---|
| Basic industries | services that export primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
| Business services | services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses |
| Central Business District (CBD) | the area of the city where retail and office activites are clustered |
| Central place | a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
| Central place theory | explains the distrib of svcs, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of hinterland for services; larger sttlmnts are fewer & farther apart than smaller sttlmnts & provide svcs for a larger number of people who are willing to travel further. |
| City-state | a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland |
| 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 |
| Consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services |
| Dispersed Rural Settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages |
| Economic base | a community's collection of basic industries |
| Enclosure movement | the process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century |
| Gravity model | a model that 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 |
| Market area (hinterland) | the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services |
| Nonbasic industries | industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community |
| Personal Services | services that provided for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers |
| Primate city | the largest settlement in a country, if it 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-largest ranking |
| Producer services | services that primarily help people conduct business |
| Public services | services offered by the 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 rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
| Retail services | services that provide goods for sale to consumers |
| Service | any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
| Settlement | a permanant collection of buildings and inhabitants |
| Threshold | the minimum number of people needed to support the service |
| Transportation and information services | services that diffuse and distribute services |
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