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a. Rank the following services from LOWER ORDER functions to HIGHER ORDER functions(1) grocery story(2) movie theater
(3) a shop selling oriental carpets
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?
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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.
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B:
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Define the following:
A. central placeB. 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)?
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What kinds of goods or services would you expect to find in Chicago that would not be available in Palatine?
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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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