Unit 6 APHG

Annexation

Legally adding land area to a city in the United States

Basic Industries

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

Boomburbs

A suburban area experiencing significant growth in population and prosperity.

Brownfields

Visual reminders on the landscape of how the center of cities have changed over time

Business services

A service that primarily meets the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services.

Census tract

An area delineated by the U.S Bureau of the census for which statistics are published in urban areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods.

Central business district (CBD)

The area of a city where retail and office activities are clustered

Central Place Theory

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.

Clustered rural settlement

A rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other, with fields surrounding the settlement.

Concentric zone model

A model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are spatially arranged in a series of rings.

Consumer services

A business that provides services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services.

Council of goverment

A cooperative agency consisting of local governments in a metropolitan area in the U.S

Density gradient

Dispersed rural settlement

   A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.

Economic base

A community’s collectin of basic businesses

Gravity model

A model that holds 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.