Settlement
- Created by: james_neve
- Created on: 17-11-16 14:44
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- Settlement
- Burgess Land use model
- CBD
- Central business District
- Land values are highest in the centre of a town or city
- High expensive tall buildings
- Shopping centres, department stores, and specialist shops
- Inner city
- Often terrace houses, grid pattern
- Often unemployment and other social issues
- Inner suburbs
- Bigger houses, often with garden
- Schools, chuchs and parks often located here
- Outer suburbs
- Urban Rural fringe
- Where town meets countryside
- Often mixture of land uses- causing conflicts
- CBD
- Keywords
- Sphere of influence
- The area that people come from to buy things
- Shops that sell large, high order goods have bigger spheres of influence than convenience goods
- Threshold population
- The minimum population needed to support a shop. Higher order good shops have a higher threshold.
- Lowe order goods
- Goods bought frequently, e.g. food.
- These are also called convenience goods.
- High order goods
- Goods that are bought less frequently, e.g. Electrical goods, furniture etc.
- These are more expensive and may be called comparison goods
- Sphere of influence
- Burgess Land use model
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