Unit 7 - Cities and Urban Land Use Vocab 1 Flashcards
A business that sells its products or services
primarily to consumers outside the settlement
Basic business
A service that primarily meets the needs of other
businesses, including professional, financial, and
transportation service
Business services
A market center for the exchange of services by
people attracted from the surrounding area
Central place
A service that primarily meets the needs of individual consumers, including retail, education, health, and leisure services
Consumer service
theory explains distribution of services based on the fact that settlements serve as centers
of market areas for services; large settlements are
fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements, provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther
Central Place Theory
A rural settlement in which the houses and farm
buildings of each family are situated close to each
other, with fields surrounding the settlement
Clustered rural
settlement
A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated
farms rather than clustered villages
Dispersed rural
settlement
The process of consolidating small landholdings into a small number of larger farms in England during the 18th century
Enclosure movement
A community’s collection of basic industries
Economic base
An area that has a substantial amount of low-
income residents and has poor access to a grocery
store, defined in most cases as further than 1 mile.
Food Desert
A service offered by the government to provide
security and protection for citizens
Public service
The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place’s good and services
Hinterland Or Market area
A business that sells its products primarily to
consumer in the same settlement.
Nonbasic business
A city that is the largest settlement in a country and
has more than twice as many people as the second-
ranking settlement
Primate city rule
The maximum distance people are willing to travel
to use a service
Range
