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Rubenstein 12
Services
Question | Answer |
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Basic Industries | Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers outside the settlement. |
Business Services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses. |
Central Business District | The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered. |
Central Place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding areas. |
Central Place Theory | A theory that explains the distribution of services |
City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and it’s 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 customers |
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 18th century. |
Gravity Model | The model that holds 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 t |
Market Area | 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 | The services that provide the well being and personal improvement of individual consumers. |
Primate City | The largest settlement in a country |
Primate City Rule | A pattern of settlements in a country |
Producer Services | Services that primarily help people conduct business. |
Public Services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection services 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 a nth largest settlement in 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 permanent 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. |