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a. Rank the following services from LOWER ORDER functions to HIGHER ORDER functions(1) grocery story LOWEST ORDER(2) movie theater MIDDLE ORDER
(3) a shop selling oriental carpets HIGHEST ORDER
b. Which of the figures below might represent the market area for each of the services in question a above? travel patterns of customers from their homes to?
a. (top diagram) GROCERY STOREb. (middle diagram)MOVIES THEATER
c. (bottom diagram) ORIENTAL CARPETS
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From the graph at the left, list a likely central place (town or city) for each of the three different size dotes on the hexagon diagram above.
Also explain WHY you chose that city or town.
A: DENVER
B: BOULDER / COLORADO SPRINGS
C: MONTE VISTA / LAKE CITY / ANACONDA / ETC.
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Define the following:
SEE PAGES 247-249, 272A. central place
B. central place function
C. higher order function
D. lower order function
E. market area
F. order
G. range
H. threshold
I. urban hierarchy
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What would happen if a good’s threshold (measured in miles) is larger than its range (also measured in miles)?
If the threshold (the minimum market size needed to support a central place function.) of a good is larger than its range (the maximum distance people are willing to travel to obtain a central place function.), there would not be enough people to support the business trying to sell the good and the business will fail. The good will not be available, except for examples like those below:
- traveling merchants in medieval Europe who would sell their wares in a different town each day or two to "collect" sufficient "ranges" to meet or, hopefully, exceed their "threshold" (market) to keep their business going
- in the US, multimillion dollar businesses have insufficient thresholds because the range for their products are too small; hence, professional athletic teams and popular entertainers with their high income demands travel throughout the country collecting "ranges." Already in the 19th century, catalog companies, like Sears, were already "annihilating" space, as does the internet does now.
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What kinds of goods or services would you expect to find in Chicago that would not be available in Palatine?
Higher order goods and services may be available in Chicago , but not in Palatine like specialized doctors (brain surgeons), rare art dealers, specialized attorneys, etc.
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1. True/False In the urban hierarchy, small towns tend to house businesses with small thresholds.2. True/False The locational choices of tertiary sector firms are driven by the same economic and geographic factors as for secondary sector firms.
3. True/False Low-order central places are more numerous than high order central places.
4. True/False High-order central place functions are obtained on a frequent basis, they require small market areas to be profitable, and people are unwilling to travel far to obtain them
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