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| industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement |
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| services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses |
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| Central Business Disctirct (CBD) |
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| the area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered |
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| a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area |
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| 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 appart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther away |
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| a sovereign state compromising 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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| 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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| a community's collection of basic industry |
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| the process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of large farms in England during the eighteenth century |
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| a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related the the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the same service |
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| the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attrached to use the place's goods and services |
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| industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community |
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| services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers |
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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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| 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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| services that primarily help people conduct business |
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| services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses |
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| the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service |
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| a pattern of settlements in a country, the Nth largest settlement is 1/N the population of the largest settlement |
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| services that provice goods for sale to consumers |
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| any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it |
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| minimum number of people needed to support the service |
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| Transportation and Information Services |
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| services that diffuse and distribute services |
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