6.4 Flashcards
An interdependent set of cities that interact on the regional,national, and global scale
Urban system
A rule that describes one way in which the sizes of cities within a region may develop; states that nth largest city of any region will be 1/n the size of the largest city
Rank-size rule
Expensive services that need a large number of people to support, and are occasionally utilized
Higher-order services
Less expensive services that require a small population to support, and are used on a daily or weekly basis
Lower-order services
A city that is more than twice as large as the next largest city, and is more developed that other cities
Primate city
A model that states that larger and closer places will have more interactions that places that are smaller and farther from each other; the larger one has primacy or priority
Gravity model
A theory that explains the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region
Central place theory
A location where people go to receive good sand services
Central place
A zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services, surrounds each central place bigger than lower order services
Market area
Something that describes market areas by the shape being square-for people at the corners- and a circle- overlapping areas of service
Hexagon hinterlands
The size of a population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable
Threshold
The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods and services
Range
