Final answer:
The categorization of market areas for a center is simple and depends on the size of the market area served, which reflects the center's size. In a flat region like Kansas, businesses in centrally located villages tend to attract more customers and grow into towns or cities, while less conveniently located villages do not attract customers and fail to grow. The growth of towns and cities in a geometric pattern can be observed.
Step-by-step explanation:
The subject of this question is Business.
Categorization of market area for a center is relatively simple because the size of the market area served is reflected in the center's size. The neighborhood shopping
As customers and merchants living and working interact over many years in a flat region like Kansas, businesses in more centrally located villages will attract more customers because of the convenience of their location. This allows those businesses to grow and thrive. Additional businesses, and customers, are therefore attracted to those villages and over many years, those villages grow into towns or even cities. Less conveniently located villages will not attract customers, nor retain merchants, and they will not grow. Competition between towns prevents neighboring locations to grow large. As a result, centrally located villages tend to grow into larger cities at the expense of their neighbors. A network of centrally located towns tends to emerge in a geometric pattern, and among those growing towns, a few will grow into large cities.