Chapter 12 Flashcards
Where do services make up the majority of employment?
MDCs (almost 80% in the US)
What determines the percent of employment in the tertiary sector?
Where the people live that can afford services
What is the Gini Coefficient?
A visual representation of the income distribution of a nation’s residents
What are the three categories of services?
Consumer services, business services, and public services
What are examples of consumer services?
Retail, hotels, restaurants, etc
What are examples of business services
Law, accounting, architecture, banking, real estate, etc
What are examples of public services
State and local government, police, fire, etc
What controls the location of consumer services?
It follows a regular pattern based on the size of settlements
What theory do services follow and what does that accomplish?
Services follow the Central Place Theory to maximize the location to customers
Who proposed the Central Place Theory and when?
Walter Christaller in the 1930s
What is central place?
The market (for the exchange of goods and services)
What is hinterland?
The market area (where the customers are)
What is the threshold?
Them minimum number of people needed to support the service of/ in the area
What is range?
The maximum distance people are willing to travel to obtain a service
What is the best location for a service?
Where it minimizes the distance to the service for the largest number of people
What shape did Christaller use and why?
He used hexagons as a compromise instead of circles and squares because circles and squares created overlaps and gaps.
What does central place theory describe?
The spatial distribution and size of cities and towns
What do central places compete against and what does it create?
Central places compete against one another creating a pattern of services and settlements
What is Hotelling’s Law?
That services tend to cluster and that competitors want to be as close to each other and the customers as possible
Services fall under what sector of the economy?
Tertiary
What is the gravity model?
It’s used to predict the degree of interaction between 2 places (the pull)
What does the strength of the bond between two places depend on?
Population and distance
What is the rank-size rule and what kinds of countries follow it?
MDCs tend to follow this rule. It’s when the proportion of small cities to large cities within a country follows a pattern; The second largest city is 1/2 the size of the first, the third largest city 1.3 the size of the first, and so on
What are some countries where the rank-size rule is found?
Italy, Canada, and Australia
