Settlement

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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
    • 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

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