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| 4298565894 | Consumer | Retail, Private school, leisure, hospitality, health care, etc | 0 | |
| 4298569808 | Business | Help other businesses: financial, professional | 1 | |
| 4298570593 | Public services | Government workers) Public ed, police, mail carriers | 2 | |
| 4298571569 | Quaternary sector | Services that deal with information: software development, teaching etc | 3 | |
| 4298572905 | Quinary | upper level executives, elected officials, decision makers | 4 | |
| 4298574573 | Central Place Theory | Walter Christaller/ explains ideal location for a service. Ideal location is as close as possible to the largest number of potential customers. | 5 | |
| 4298575284 | Range | maximum distance people will travel to use a service. Eg: dry cleaners has small range. Disney has enormous range | 6 | |
| 4298575889 | Threshold | Minimum number of customers needed to keep a service in business | 7 | |
| 4298576582 | Rank Size Rule | nth largest settlement is 1/n size of largest. Eg LA is ½ size of NYC. Chicago is 1/3 size of NYC | 8 | |
| 4298576889 | Primate City rule | Largest city is more than twice the size of the next largest.Eg: Bucharest in Romania, Mexico City | 9 | |
| 4298579285 | Global Cities | Headquarters of major corp and financial institutions: NYC, London, Tokyo. Decisions affect world economy. | 10 | |
| 4298580228 | Regional command and control centers | state capitols/ cities of regional importance. | 11 | |
| 4298582621 | Dependent centers | lowest tier of cities. Dependent on economy of the rest of the country/ Orlando, Las Vegas | 12 | |
| 4298583219 | basic industries | bring money into a settlement from outside. Essential. Disney | 13 | |
| 4298583771 | nonbasic industries | circulate money within community: dry cleaners, local restaurant | 14 | |
| 4298585774 | Clustered rural settlements | Circular: New England, Germany long lot/ linear Mississippi river (French settled areas) | 15 | |
| 4298587378 | Dispersed rural settlements | more common with commercial ag. Closest neighbor may be a mile away. | 16 | |
| 4298588092 | Enclosure movement | Process in UK whereby circular rural settlements were transformed into dispersed rural settlements. 1800's. | 17 | |
| 4298588745 | Agglomeration Economies | clustering of similar types of services resulting in benefits to each. Eg. Specialist doctors' offices near hospital Eg: hotels and restaurants near Disney | 18 | |
| 4298589976 | Density gradient | greatest land cost/ least space available is in CBD. Space increases/ cost decreases with greater distance outward. | 19 | |
| 4298592417 | . Cities in Latin America | Some of World's largest | 20 | |
| 4298593316 | What are 3 common characteristics | Grid pattern Cathedral in center Open plaza in center | 21 | |
| 4298595284 | Large squater settelment in Brazil are called | favelas | 22 | |
| 4298597092 | in Spanish speaking countries they are called | Barriadas | 23 |
