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agglomeration economies |
the emergence of specialized resources in a locality in response to demand from multiple industries. Generally associated with large cities. |
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bid-rent model |
model of how land users bid for location that reveals the influences on how density of land use is determined, how competing urban land uses sort out their locations, how urban land value is determined and why land uses change over time |
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central place pattern |
a location pattern in which similar economic entities, such as a particular type of convenience service or retail establishment, tend to disperse evenly over the market region |
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comparison activities |
goods and services whose optimal location pattern is clustering |
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concentric ring model |
model created by E.W. Burgess that offered a concentric ring model of urban form in which the center circle is the central business district. adjacent to it is a zone of transition which contained warehousing and other industrial land uses. This was followed by a ring of lower-income residential land use, followed by a ring of middle and upper-income land use. |
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convenience activities |
categorization of some types of urban services and products that users seek to obtain the good or service from the closest available source` |
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economic base |
the set of economic activities that a city provides for the world beyond it's boundaries |
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industry economies of scale |
the growth of an industry within a locality that creates special resources and cost advantages for that industry |
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linkages |
the attractions or important access needs that one land use has for other land uses |
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local economic activities |
activities in a city that server the local businesses and households |
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location quotient |
the ratio between the percentage of employees in a certain type of work or job classification in a community and the percentage of employees in that same type of work or job classification nationally. If the ratio exceeds 1 it indicates the activity is a base economic activity. |
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multinuclei city |
phrase coined by Harris and Ullman in a landmark study that described the effects of the motor vehicle, combined with new technologies of production, that released the city from its absolute ties to the CBD |
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sector model |
model of urban form proposed by Homer Hoyt that is characterized by radial corridors or wedges, particularly for higher income residential land use. |
