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| 9594082215 | Basic industries | Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement | 0 | |
| 9594085692 | Business services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services | 1 | |
| 9594090594 | Central place | A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area | 2 | |
| 9594095425 | Central place theory | A 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 apart than smaller settlement and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther | 3 | |
| 9594106359 | City-state | A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland | 4 | |
| 9594112258 | Clustered rural settlement | A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement | 5 | |
| 9594117668 | Consumer services | Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, healthy, and leisure services | 6 | |
| 9594124693 | Dispersed rural settlement | A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages | 7 | |
| 9594133765 | Economic base | A community's collection of basic industries | 8 | |
| 9594137192 | Enclosure movement | The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century | 9 | |
| 9594146108 | Gravity model | A model which holds the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service | 10 | |
| 9594157692 | Market area | (or hinterland) The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services | 11 | |
| 9594162082 | Nonbasic industries | Industries that sell their products primarily tot consumers in the community | 12 | |
| 9594167075 | Primate city | The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement | 13 | |
| 9594172107 | Primate city rule | A pattern of settlements in a country such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement | 14 | |
| 9594179198 | Public services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses | 15 | |
| 9594188535 | Range | (of a service) The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service | 16 | |
| 9594191516 | Rank-size rule | A pattern of settlements in a country such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement | 17 | |
| 9594200019 | Service | Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it | 18 | |
| 9594204594 | Settlement | A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants | 19 | |
| 9594207672 | Threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support a service | 20 | |
| 9594211960 | Urbanization | An increase in the % of the number of people living in urban settlements | 21 |
