APHG Chapter 12 Services and Settlements

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Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses

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Public Services

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

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Service

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Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and personal services.

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Consumer Services

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A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement

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Primate City Rule

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A community's collection of basic industries.

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Economic Base

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The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

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Primate City

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A pattern of settlement in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

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Rank Size Rule

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The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century.

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Enclosure movement

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A permanent collection of buildings and inhabitants

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Settlement

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The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.

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Market Area