Rubenstein-Chapter 12: Services Flashcards

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Basic Industries

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Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.

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Business Services

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Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses.

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3
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Central Place

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A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.

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Central Place Theory

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A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.

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City-State

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A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland.

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Clustered Rural Settlement

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A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement.

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Consumer Services

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Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services.

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Dispersed Rural Settlement

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A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.

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Economic Base

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A community’s collection of basic industries.

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10
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Enclosure Movement

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The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century.

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11
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Gravity Model

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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.

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Market Area (Hinterland)

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The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place’s goods and services.

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13
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Nonbasic Industries

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Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.

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14
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Primate City

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The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

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Primate City Rule

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A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

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16
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Public Services

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Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.

17
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Range

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The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

18
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Rank-Size Rule

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A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

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Service

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An activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it.

20
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Settlement

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A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants.

21
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Threshold

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The minimum number of people needed to support the service.

22
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Central Business District (CBD)

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Businesses clustered at the center of the city, commonly called downtown.