accessibility - how easy it is to get to a settlement

central businessdistrict (CBD) - the centre of a city which usually has departmental stores, offices, main bus and railway stations and entertainments

commuter village - a village next to a city; many people travel, or commute, from the village to work in the city

conurbation - a very large built up area formed when towns and cities join together

dispersed - a scattered pattern of settlements

function - the main purpose of a settlement, e.g. port, market

high order services - services that are rarely used by most people and are only found in the larger towns and cities e.g. major football stadium, international airport.

land use zones - are the areas of housing, industry and commerce (shops, offices etc.)in a town.

industrial estate - an area of modem factories

Infrastructure - the framework of roads, railways, power supplies

land use zones - areas in a town with the same kind of land use

linear settlement - settlement with a long, narrow shape

low order services - those used frequently b

Models are used to simplify reality and help us understand what is usually a whole range of complex processes. It is often useful to compare towns or cities to different models.

urban sprawl - the spreading of towns into the countryside

Industry is, however, willing to pay to be on the outskirts of the CBD. There is more land available for their factories, but they still have many of the benefits of the CBD, such as a market place and good communications.

Some topics in this essay:
Web Notes, Milton Keynes, MIGRATION Migration, Industrial Revolution, Barcelona Madrid, CBD CBD, Population Structure, Surrounding CBD, Explanation Hoyt’s, South Alternatively, towns cities, inner city, population density, rural urban, quality life, population population, town urban, population pyramids, death rates, demographic transition model, densely populated, rural urban migration, birth rate death, optimising shoppers settlements, christaller’s central theory,