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The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered is the
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settlement
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Retail activities which tend to concentrate in the CBD include those which have
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service for office workers
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The CBD attracts offices primarily because of its
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high accessibility
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Land values are high in the CBD primarily because of
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competition for limited space
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As a result of high land costs, the American CBD is characterized by construction of
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skyscrapers
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What activity tends to locate on the street-level floor of a sky-scraper in a typical North American CBD
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retail
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European CBD's are similar to those in North America because they both contain
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retail and office activities
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A land use typically excluded from a North American CBD is
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industrial
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Public transportation is better suited for commuting to the CBD primarily because

 

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each traveler takes up less space
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Because so few people live in the CBD, urban areas are characterized by a high degree of
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commuting
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The most important religious reason for the origin of settlements was a place to
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bury the dead
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The most important political reason for the origin of settlements was a place to
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protect the groups of assests
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Economic reasons for settlements include
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warehousing, trading and maufacturing
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Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in
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agriculture
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Rural settlements differ from urban settlements primarily according to which type of activity
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economic
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A place where farm building, homes, and churches are found close together is what kind of settlement?
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clustered rural
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Most people in the world live in what type of settlement
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clustered rural
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The french long-lot system was developed primarily becuase of
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need to access a river
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The most significant impact on the rural landscape of GB's enclosure movement was to
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encourage a dispersed rural settlement pattern
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The most significant anticipated benefit of the enclosure movement was
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promote agriculture efficency
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Clustered rural settlements were most common in which region on colonial America
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New England
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The plantationwas a common form of rural settlement in which region of colonial America
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Southeast
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The fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. brought about what change in urban settlement?
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reduction in urban population
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