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| 67895201 | Basic industries | industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement | |
| 67895202 | business services | services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses | |
| 67895203 | central business district (CBD) | the area of the cty where retail and office activities are clustered. | |
| 67895204 | central place | a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area. | |
| 67895205 | 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 settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther | |
| 67895206 | city-state | a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. | |
| 67895207 | clustered rural settlement | a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement. | |
| 67895208 | consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to indivudual consumers, including retail services and personal services. | |
| 67895209 | dispersed rural settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages. | |
| 67895210 | economic base | a community's collection of basic industries | |
| 67895211 | enclosure movement | the process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms n England during the eighteenth century. | |
| 67895212 | gravity model | 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 this service. | |
| 67895213 | market area (or hinterland) | the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. | |
| 67895214 | nonbasic industries | industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community. | |
| 67895215 | personal services | services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers. | |
| 67895216 | primate city | the largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. | |
| 67895217 | 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. | |
| 67895218 | producer services | services that primarily help people conduct business. | |
| 67895219 | public services | services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses. | |
| 67895220 | range (of a service) | the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. | |
| 67895221 | 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. | |
| 67895222 | retail services | services that provide goods for sale to consumers. | |
| 67895223 | service | any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it. | |
| 67895224 | settlement | a permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants. | |
| 67895225 | threshold | the minimum number of people needed to support the service. | |
| 67895226 | transportation and information services | services that diffuse and distribute services. |
