Chapter 12 Services and Settlements

Grouping together of many firms from the same industry in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources.

Industries that sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement

Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services

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.

The market area surrounding an urban center, which that urban center serves.

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement

Relating to farm areas and life in the country

Refers to cities, and the build up of cities.

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.