The Cultural Landscape Chapter 12: Services

________, in present- day Turkey, occupied a 50- hectare (125- acre) site and apparently had a population of about 10, 000.

________ was first proposed in the 1930s by German geographer Walter Christaller, based on his studies of southern Germany.

________ and fast- food restaurants appeal to nearly everyone, whereas other goods and services appeal primarily to certain consumer groups.

________ and Tokyo are the two large cities in MDCs.

The ________ brought greater agricultural efficiency, but it destroyed the self- contained world of village life.

________ required that each son inherit an equal portion of an estate, so the heirs established separate farms in each division.

________ presents more plays than the rest of the United Kingdom combined, and New York has nearly more theaters than the rest of the United States combined.

The "________, developed by POV Magazine, combined the percentage of population in their 20s, the number of bars and other nightlife places per capita, and the number of art galleries per capita.

(________ represent a compromise between circles and squares .)

________ have numerous small settlements with small thresholds and ranges, and far fewer large settlements with large thresholds and ranges.

________ may be centers of national or international political power.

________ was once the most important basic industry of Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but now health services such as hospitals and clinics and medical high- technology research are more important.

A(n) ________ or apartment building that contains 100 families will generate more customers than a house containing only one family.

________ was measured by Florida as a combination of the percentage of people in the city with college degrees, the percentage employed as scientists or engineers, and the percentage employed as professionals or technicians.

Within business services, jobs expanded most rapidly in professional services (such as engineering, management, and law), data processing, advertising, and ________ agencies.

A settlement may offer a service such as a(n) ________, an advertising agency, or a film studio not found in other settlements of comparable size.

In ________, København (Copenhagen) is a primate city with 1 million inhabitants, whereas the second- largest urban area, Aarhus, has only 200, 000, instead of the 500, 000 that the rank- size rule predicts.

________ has documented a similar hierarchy of settlements in parts of the U.S. Midwest.

A(n) ________ is a market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area.

Settlements were first established in the ________ about 2500 B.C.

________ is managed by large corporations formed to minimize the liability to any individual owner.

Urban settlements may have originated in ________, part of the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, and diffused at an early date to Egypt, China, and South Asia's Indus Valley.

Mining settlements are located near ________ of coal, petroleum, and other resources.

The ________ predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.

________ distinguish four levels of urban settlements according to their importance in the provision of business services.

A settlement's economic base is important, because exporting by the basic industries brings money into the local economy, thus stimulating the provision of more nonbasic ________ for the settlement.

Offshore centers provide two important functions in the ________:

________: Typically conform to the weekly calendar- once a week in each of six cities and no market on Friday, the Muslim day of rest.

The range and threshold together determine whether a good or service can be profitable in a(n) ________.

________ typically offer the most plays, concerts, operas, nightclubs, restaurants, bars, and professional sporting events.

________ have a higher percentage of urban residents, but LDCs have more of the very large urban settlements.

General business: Large metropolitan areas, especially Chicago, Los Angeles, ________, and San Francisco.

In ancient times, a handful of urban settlements provided business and public services, as well as some ________ with large market areas.

Farmers lost time moving between fields, villagers had to build more roads to connect the small lots, and farmers were restricted in what they could plant

Where should the service be located within the market area to maximize profit

Typically conform to the weekly calendar-once a week in each of six cities and no market on Friday, the Muslim day of rest

Large metropolitan areas, especially Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco

Austin, Orlando, and Raleigh-Durham

any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it

a permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services

provide services to individual consumers who desire them and can afford to pay for them

used to facilitate other businesses

used to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses

a place where a number of families live in close proximity to each other, with fields surrounding the collection of houses and farm buildings

typical of the North American rural landscape, is characterized by farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors rather than alongside other farmers in settlements

the British government transformed the rural landscape by consolidating individually owned strips of land surrounding a village into a single large farm, owned by an individual

the process by which the population of urban settlements grows

helps to explain how the most profitable location can be identified

a market center for the exchange of goods and services by people attracted from the surrounding area

the area surrounding a service from which customers are attracted

the maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service

the minimum number of people needed to support the service

predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it

the country's nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement

the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

the country's largest city

export primarily to consumers outside the settlement

enterprises whose customers live in the same community—essentially, consumer services

a community's unique collection of basic industries