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| 19736831 | Range | the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. | |
| 19736832 | Producer services | services that primarily help people conduct business | |
| 19736833 | Primate city rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the larges settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement | |
| 19736834 | Primate city | the largest settlement in a counrtry, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement | |
| 19736835 | consumer services | services that provide for the well-being and personal improvement of individual consumers | |
| 19736836 | Central Business District | the area of the city where retail and office activivies are clustered. | |
| 19738174 | Basic Industries | industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement | |
| 19738175 | Trading Bloc | a group of neighboring countries that promote trade with each other and erect barriers to limit trade with other blocs. | |
| 19738176 | Personal services | manufacturing activites in which cost of transporting both raw materials and finished products is not important for determining the location for the firm. | |
| 19738177 | Non-basic industries | industries that sell their products primarily to consumers in the community | |
| 19738178 | Market area | the area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. | |
| 19738179 | Gravity model | a model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number or people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. | |
| 19738180 | Enclosure movement | the process of consolidating small landholding into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century | |
| 19738181 | Economic base | a community's collection of basic industries | |
| 19738182 | Dispersed rural settlement | a rural settlement pattern characterized b isolated farms rather than clustered villages. | |
| 19738183 | Textile | a fabric made by weaving, used in making clothing. | |
| 19738184 | situation factors | the location of a place relative to other places; location factors related to transportation of materials into and from a factory. | |
| 19738185 | Site factors | location factors related to the costs of factors of production inside the plant, such as land, labor, and capital. | |
| 19738186 | Right-to-work state | A US state that has passed a law preventing a union and company from negotiating a contract that requires workers to join a union as a condition of employmnet. | |
| 19738187 | Post Fordist | production adoption by companies of flexible work rules, such as the allocation of workers to teams that perform a variety of tasks. | |
| 19738188 | New International Division of Labor | transfer of some types of jobs, especially those requiring low-piad, less skilled workers, from more developed countries to less developed countries. | |
| 19738189 | Maquiladora | factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border, to take advantage of much cheaper labor in Mexico. | |
| 19738190 | Labor Intensive Industry | Industry in which labor costs comprise a high percentage of total expenses. | |
| 19738191 | Business services | services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses | |
| 19738192 | consumer services | businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services. | |
| 19738193 | Industrial Revolution | a series of improvements in the 1750's-1950's in industrial technology that transformed the proccess of manufacturing goods. | |
| 19738194 | Fordist | production form of mass production in which each worker is assigned one specidic task to perform repeatedly. | |
| 19738195 | 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 settlment. | |
| 19738196 | Cottage industry | manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory; commonly found before the industrial revolution | |
| 19738197 | Bulk-reducing industry | an industry in which the final product weighs less than or comprises a lower volume than the inputs. | |
| 19738198 | break-of-bulk point | a location where transfer is possible from one mode of transportation to another | |
| 19738199 | City state | a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland. | |
| 19738200 | Central Place theory | a thoery 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 large number of people who are willing to travel farther. | |
| 19738201 | Central Place | a market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surroundign area. | |
| 19738202 | Transportation and Information services | services that diffuse and distribute services | |
| 19738203 | threshhold | the minimum number of people needed to support the service | |
| 19738204 | Settlement | a permanentcollection of buildings and inhabitants. | |
| 19738205 | service | an activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those that provide it. | |
| 19738206 | Retail services | services that provide goods for sale to consumers. | |
| 19738207 | Rank-Size rule | a pattern of settlements in a country, such that the "n"th largest settlement is 1/"n" the population of the largest settlement. |
