An analysis of the external trade and service areas of Greenville, North Carolina / by James A. Woolverton.
| Author/creator | Woolverton, James A. author. |
| Other author | Larson, Ronald A., degree supervisor. |
| Other author | East Carolina University. Department of Geography. |
| Format | Theses and dissertations |
| Production | 1969. |
| Description | iv, 66 leaves : maps ; 29 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Access via ScholarShip |
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| Summary | The purpose of this study is to analyze the spatial relationships between the city of Greenville, North Carolina, and its external area. The study determines the important functions of Greenville which serve the immediate surrounding area, and maps the contiguous area of support for each particular function. Each function has its own unique area of support. The size and shape of each external area differs somewhat, yet a remarkable similarity among many is noted. The functions included in the study are farm marketing facilities; retail and wholesale firms; services such as political, post office, hospital, telephone, radio, and television broadcasting, newspaper circulation, and educational services of East Carolina University; labor shed; traffic flow; and a gravitational model base on population and distance. The areas of support for each of the functions was determined by the sampling of ledgers of the individual firms, acquiring of field data, and by empirical observations. Maps present the areal extent of these functions, and their size and configuration is analysed. The functions used in this study basically reflect the area's agricultural importance to Greenville, but its economic, political, and social services are portrayed as well. Upon spatial analysis, it becomes apparent that there are two broad types of associated external areas; these are (1) for those functions that are largely county-wide in areal extent, and (2) for those functions having an areal extent over eastern North Carolina or farther. |
| General note | "Presented to the faculty of the Department of Geography ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in Geography." |
| General note | Advisor: Ronald A. Larson |
| Dissertation note | M.A. East Carolina University 1969 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-66). |
| Genre/form | dissertations. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Thèses et écrits académiques. |