Central Business District
Area of the city that retail and business activities were clustered
Service for office workers
Included in retail activities which tend to concentrate in the CBD
Why do CBDs attract offices?
high accessibility
Competition for limited space
Causes land values to be high in CBDs
Why is the construction of skyscrapers a characteristic of CBDs?
High land cost
In North America, what activity tends to locate at the street-level floor of a skyscraper?
retail
What characteristic is similar in both CBDs in Europe and North America?
retail and office activities
What land use is usually excluded in North American CBDs.
industrial
travelers taking up less space
Make public transportation a better option for commuting to CBDs.
The fact that so few people live in CBDs, urban areas characteristically have a high level of
commuting
Family protection, religion, politics, and manufacturing
are all cultural reasons for establishing a settlement
bury the dead
religious reason for the establishment of settlements
protect a group’s assets
important political reason for the establishment of settlements
manufacturing, trading, warehousing, and defense
economic reasons for settlements
major difference of dwellers in urban and rural settlements
rural dwellers are more likely to work in agriculture
What activity describes the difference between rural and urban settlement?
economic
A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found.
clustered rural
clustered rural
where most people in the world live
French long-lot system
primarily developed because of need for access to a river
Great Britain’s enclosure movement had what impact?
encouraged a dispersed rural settlement pattern
benefit of the enclosure unit
promote agricultural efficiency
In colonial America, where were clustered rural settlements most common?
New England
Plantations were common in which region of colonial America?
Southeast
the fall of the Roman Empire caused
reduction in urban population
placement of buildings around a central market square
characteristic of medieval European urban settlements
city-state
a state dominated by a major city
Professional services (consumers)
not a consumer service
business services
services provided to businesses
area surrounding a service from which consumers are attracted
hinterland
range
maximum distance consumers will travel for a service
threshold
minimum number of people needed to support a service
median
best location for a service in a linear community
According to the ____________________ , the potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance.
gravity model
geometric pattern used to represent market areas
hexagon
_________________ settlements less numerous and farther apart.
Larger
If a country follows the __________________, if the largest city has 1,000,000 residents, how many people live in the 5th largest city?
rank-size rule, 200,000
Largest city – one million residents, 2nd largest city 200,000, what distribution is followed?
primate city
Significance of the absence of rank-size rule
consumers do not have access to goods and services
market area
functional region
basic industry
a business that sells its products primarily outside of its settlement
the importance of attracting a new basic industry
stimulates new nonbasic industry
rank size-rule
hierarchal ranking of settlements
primate city
at least twice as large as the next smaller city
central place
market center
What type of economic activity is a steel mill?
basic
important basic activity of the southern Great Lakes
manufacturing of durable goods
LDCs specialize in what type business activities?
offshore financial and back office
low wage rates and workers who speak English
Factors that determine where back office activities will locate in LDCs
telecommunications
technical development that has allowed back office services to locate to LDCs
Greatest increases in consumer service has been in
health.
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