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| Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement. | ||
| Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses. | ||
| The area of the city where retail and office activities are clustered. | ||
| A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. | ||
| 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 settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. | ||
| A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland | ||
| A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement. | ||
| Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services. | ||
| A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. | ||
| A community's collection of basic industries. | ||
| The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. | ||
| A model that holds that 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. | ||
| The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. | ||
| Industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. | ||
| Services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers. | ||
| The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. | ||
| A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. | ||
| Services that primarily help people conduct business. | ||
| Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses | ||
| The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. | ||
| A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the 11th largest settlement is Un the population of the largest settlement. | ||
| Services that provide goods for sale to consumers. | ||
| An activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. | ||
| A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. | ||
| Services that diffuse and distribute services. | ||
| The minimum number of people needed to support the service |
