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| service- any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
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| Settlement- a permanent collection of buildings, where people reside, work, and obtain services |
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| Consumer services- to provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them |
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| Retail services- provides goods for sale to consumers |
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| Personal services- provide services for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers |
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| Business services- to facilitate other businesses. Main types: producer and transportation |
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| Transportation and information services |
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| Transportation and information services- businesses that diffuse and distribute services |
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| Public services- to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
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| Clustered rural settlements |
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| Clustered rural settlements- where an number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings |
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| Dispersed rural settlements |
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| Dispersed rural settlements- characteristic of the contemporary North American rural landscape, are characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in settlements |
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| Enclosure movement- the process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century |
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| Central place- a market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
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| Central place theory- how services are distributed and why a regular patter of settlements exist |
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| Market area (hinterland)- the area surrounding a service from which customers re attracted |
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| Range- the maximum distance people are willing to travel for the use of a service |
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| Threshold- the minimum number of people needed to support the service |
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| Rank-size rule- which the countries nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement |
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| Primate city rule- the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement |
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| Primate city- the country’s largest city |
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| City-state- independent self-governing communities that included the settlement and nearby countryside |
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| Basic industries- export primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
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| Nonbasic industries- enterprises whose customers live in the same community, essentially consumer services |
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| Economic base- a community’s unique collection of basic industries |
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| Central business district (CBD) |
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| Central business district (CBD)- the area of a city were retail and office activities are clustered |
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