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Central Business District

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.

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Central Business District

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  1. Central Business District Area of the city that retail and business activities were clustered

  2. Service for office workers Included in retail activities which tend to concentrate in the CBD

  3. Why do CBDs attract offices? high accessibility

  4. Competition for limited space Causes land values to be high in CBDs

  5. Why is the construction of skyscrapers a characteristic of CBDs? High land cost

  6. In North America, what activity tends to locate at the street-level floor of a skyscraper? retail

  7. What characteristic is similar in both CBDs in Europe and North America? retail and office activities

  8. What land use is usually excluded in North American CBDs. industrial

  9. travelers taking up less space Make public transportation a better option for commuting to CBDs.

  10. The fact that so few people live in CBDs, urban areas characteristically have a high level of commuting

  11. Family protection, religion, politics, and manufacturing are all cultural reasons for establishing a settlement

  12. bury the dead religious reason for the establishment of settlements

  13. protect a group’s assets important political reason for the establishment of settlements

  14. manufacturing, trading, warehousing, and defense economic reasons for settlements

  15. major difference of dwellers in urban and rural settlements rural dwellers are more likely to work in agriculture

  16. What activity describes the difference between rural and urban settlement? economic

  17. A place where farm buildings, homes, and churches are found. clustered rural

  18. clustered rural where most people in the world live

  19. French long-lot system primarily developed because of need for access to a river

  20. Great Britain’s enclosure movement had what impact? encouraged a dispersed rural settlement pattern

  21. benefit of the enclosure unit promote agricultural efficiency

  22. In colonial America, where were clustered rural settlements most common? New England

  23. Plantations were common in which region of colonial America? Southeast

  24. the fall of the Roman Empire caused reduction in urban population

  25. placement of buildings around a central market square characteristic of medieval European urban settlements

  26. city-state a state dominated by a major city

  27. Professional services (consumers) not a consumer service

  28. business services services provided to businesses

  29. area surrounding a service from which consumers are attracted hinterland

  30. range maximum distance consumers will travel for a service

  31. threshold minimum number of people needed to support a service

  32. median best location for a service in a linear community

  33. According to the ____________________ , the potential use of a service at a location is related directly to population and inversely to distance. gravity model

  34. geometric pattern used to represent market areas hexagon

  35. _________________ settlements less numerous and farther apart. Larger

  36. 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

  37. Largest city – one million residents, 2nd largest city 200,000, what distribution is followed? primate city

  38. Significance of the absence of rank-size rule consumers do not have access to goods and services

  39. market area functional region

  40. basic industry a business that sells its products primarily outside of its settlement

  41. the importance of attracting a new basic industry stimulates new nonbasic industry

  42. rank size-rule hierarchal ranking of settlements

  43. primate city at least twice as large as the next smaller city

  44. central place market center

  45. What type of economic activity is a steel mill? basic

  46. important basic activity of the southern Great Lakes manufacturing of durable goods

  47. LDCs specialize in what type business activities? offshore financial and back office

  48. low wage rates and workers who speak English Factors that determine where back office activities will locate in LDCs

  49. telecommunications technical development that has allowed back office services to locate to LDCs

  50. Greatest increases in consumer service has been in health.

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