6.3-6.4 Flashcards
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Exert influence for beyond their national boundaries
Ex. New York, London, Tokyo
World Cities (Global cities)
Rankings based on influence or population size
Urban hierarchy
Command centers on a regional or national level
Nodal Cities
Interdependent set of cities that interact on a regional, national and global scale
Urban System
Describes how the sizes of cities within a region may develop
Rank-Size rule
Expensive, need a large number of people, occasionally utilized
Higher-order services
Less expensive, less people needed, used daily or weekly
Lower-order services
More developed than other cities in the system, consequently more powerful
Primate city
Larger and closer places will have more interaction than places smaller and farther
Gravity model
Explained the distribution of cities of different sizes across a region
Central Place theory
Location people go to receive goods and services
Central place
Zone that contains people who will purchase goods or services
Market area
People living in corners farther from central place, people living in circle would have overlapping areas of service
Hexagonal Hinterlands
Size of the population necessary for any particular service to exist and remain profitable
Threshold
The distance people will travel to obtain specific goods
Range
