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In the study of urban geography, an agglomeration is an extended town area consisting of the built-up area of a central place and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area.
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The "Denver Metro Area" is an agglomeration of Denver and its surrounding suburban towns. |
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An industry that exports almost all of its production, making it critical to the economy of the area it is situated in.
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The auto industry is basic to the Rust Belt region. |
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Services that cater to the needs of businesses.
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Primarily, shipping services like FedEx are business services. |
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A geographic theory, developed by German geographer Walter Christaller, that explains the number, size, and location of urban settlements through designating major cities as "central places," around which services and homes cluster.
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This theory is often used when locating services, such as shopping malls. |
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| Clustered Rural Settlement |
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A pattern of rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each others' fields and surround the settlement.
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My father's family farm in India is part of a clustered rural settlement. |
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| Command And Control Center |
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A second-economic-level city, containing the headquarters of major corporations, well-developed banking facilities, and high concentrations of other services.
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Los Angeles, CA |
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A fourth-economic-level city, controlled by higher-level cities and containing largely unskilled jobs.
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Most small towns, such as Central City, CO are dependent centers, but not all. |
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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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This settlement pattern is commonly found in the U.K. |
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This summation consists of the companies that provide the majority of the jobs in a given region.
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Ford and GM consist the economic base of the Rust Belt region. |
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A geographical model, derived from Newton's Law of gravitation, used here to identify the ideal distribution of services in relation to consumer residences.
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This model explains why major shops are generally located equidistant from all of their potential consumer neighborhoods. |
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The area surrounding and served by an urban center.
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Highlands Ranch is in the hinterland of Denver. |
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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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Highlands Ranch is in the market area of Denver. |
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Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community, not catalyzing the local economy as much.
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Auto parts producers generally constitute a non-basic industry. |
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Within a country, a primate city is a single city which is over twice the size of the next largest city.
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Mexico City is definitely Mexico's primate city. |
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These are services that are provided by government to all of its constituents.
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The fire department is a critical public service. |
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The distance people would travel in order to patronize a service.
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Petrol stations, due to their ubiquity, have an extremely low range. |
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This "rule" attempts to predict the population of cities based on their size rank within their country. The population of the city is predicted using the formula 1/n, where n is the size ranking of the city within its country. For example, the 2nd-ranking city in a country would have approximately half the population of the 1st-ranking city, the 3rd-ranking city in a country would have almost 1/3 of the population of the 1st-ranking city, etc.
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The U.S. conforms excellently to this rule. |
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An intangible economic good (excepting most software products).
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A car wash is a common service. |
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A human residence of any sort.
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Anything from a single homestead to New York City qualifies as a settlement. |
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| Specialized Producer-Service Center |
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A third-economic level city, with a relatively high concentration of services, but lacking prominence.
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Denver, CO. |
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The volume of customers required in order to make a service viable.
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Small enterprises such as gourmet food trucks have very low thresholds. |
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The process by which an increasing proportion of the world population begins to live in urban areas, such as cities or suburbs.
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This is going at a rapid rate in India and China. |
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A first-economic-level city, tightly entrenched into the global economy, controlling the flow of information and capital.
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New York City, NY |
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A method of land use planning in use in most MDCs, designating land to be used for various types of services.
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Most planned cities are/were heavily zoned, for a uniform design and appearance. |
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