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Chapter 12: Service Flashcards

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1
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Define a Service

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An activity that fulfills a human want or need in exchange for money

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Define a Settlement

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A permanent collection of building where people reside, work and obtain services

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How much of Earth is settled?

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1%

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Why are more services found in MDCs?

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  • Can afford services
  • Services locate near settlements in order to attract customers
  • Market oriented
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What are the 3 types of services?

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  1. Consumer
  2. Business
  3. Public
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Define a Consumer Service:

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Provided services for PEOPLE
ex: healthcare, education, hair dresser

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What percentage of Americans work in consumer services?

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50%

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Define a Business Service:

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Provides services to other BUSINESSES
ex: lawyer, truck driver, accountant

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What percentage of Americans work in business services?

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25%

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Define a Public Service:

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Provides services for SECURITY/PROTECTION of US CITIZENS and Businesses
ex: Police, firefighter, government workers (bureaucracy)

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What percentage of Americans work in public services?

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10%

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What is the percentage of Americans who work in Secondary/Primary Jobs?

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15%

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What is the percentage of GDP America makes from Service/Tertiary jobs?

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70+ %

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What is the Central Place theory?

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Developed by Walter Christaller in the 1930’s, discusses how the most profitable location can be identified.

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What are the 5 ruled on The Central Place Theory?

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  1. The greater distance from another same sized place
  2. The greater number of retail/service functions
  3. The larger trade area (downtown)
  4. The higher the order of functions (quality)
  5. The fewer such places in a region (exclusivity)
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Define Range:

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Maximum distance a consumer is willing to travel to purchase a retail good or service.

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Define Threshold:

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minimum number of people customers and sales needed for a business to make a profit.

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Define Rushton’s Indifference Curve:

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People are willing to travel farther to a larger place than to a smaller place because of multipurpose trips.

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What shape does the Central Place Theory use when mapping settlement patterns?

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Hexagons

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What are some geographic assumptions Christaller made in CPT?

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  • “featureless” Landscape on an infinite plane
  • Uniform homogenous population distribution
  • High-order central places also offer lower-order functions
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What are some Behavioral(economic) assumptions Chistaller made in CPT?

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  • Consumers shop at the closest place possible
  • Consumers do not go beyond the range of good
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How did August Losch extend CPT?

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Created City-Rich and City-Poor sectors

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City-rich factors:

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  • more services
  • good transportation
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City-poor factors:

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  • low-income populations
  • few services/businesses
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What is the Rank-Size Rule?

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The country’s nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

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Define Primate City:

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A countries largest city

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What is the Primate City Rule?

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The largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the 2nd-ranking settlement.

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Define the Gravity Model?

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Predicts that the optimal location of a service is directly related to the number of people in the area and inversely related to the distance people must travel to access it.

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What are 2 Basic patterns of the Gravity Model?

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  1. The greater the number of people living in a particular place, the greater the number of potential customers for a service
  2. The farther people are from a particular service, the less likely the are to use it.
30
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Describe Food Deserts:

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Areas of cities not served by grocery stores

31
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What are the 3 possibilities for the Hierarchy of Settlements?

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  1. Rank-Size Rule
  2. Primate
  3. Irregular
32
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How are Cities ranked?

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  • Based on QUALITY
  • And QUANTITY of services
33
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Tier Rankings

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Top Tier/ Second Tier/ Third Tier

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World Cities Rankings (Rubenstein)

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Dominant/ Major/ Secondary/ 4th Level

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Global Cities Rankings

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Alpha ++ through Gamma -

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Offshoring

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Companies move their back-offices to other countries

37
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Outsourcing

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Contracting work to non-company employees or other companies to reduce cost.

38
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Where does Offshoring usually take place?

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Micro-states
ex: Caribbean Islands, Liechtenstein, San Mario

39
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What is Back-Office?

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Paper work, payroll, insurance claim

40
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What are Call-centers?

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Help lines, customer service

41
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Why do Call - Centers now situate in LDCs?

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They place these call centers in an English speaking LDC which has low-wages for these workers and weak labor regulations.

42
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Who created the Talent Index?

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Richard Florida

43
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What did the Talent Index Measure?

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  • people with college degrees
  • who are scientists and engineers
  • and people employed as professionals or technicians
44
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Who created the Coolness Index?

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Florian Kock

45
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What does the Coolness Index measure?

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  • measures a city’s bars, nightclubs, concerts
  • people in their 20s
  • art galleries & cultural activities
  • the number of LGBTQ?+ people
  • higher % of diversity = a higher % of talent, coolness
46
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What is the Coolest City on Earth?

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Portland, Oregon

47
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Clustered Rural Settlements

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An agricultural - based community in which a number of families live in close proximity to each other, for safety and services.

48
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What are the 2 types of Clustered Rural Settlements?

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Linear - along a road or river
Circular - in a circle

49
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Dispersed Rural Settlements

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Farmers living on individual farms isolated from neighbors, settlements started by individuals.

50
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Where was the 1st Urban City?

A

Ur (modern Iraq)

51
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Where did urbanization 1st start?

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Mesopotamia

52
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What was the 1st service?

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Corpse Disposal

53
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What was the Enclosure Movement?

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From 1700-1850 in the UK, this was a series of laws that allowed the wealthy to fence property to keep the poor out of their land.

54
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What did the poor do after the Enclosure Movement?

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Migrated to Cities
- Rapid Urbanizations followed
- to North America as emigrants
- 1st major wave of US migration

55
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How many humans live in urban areas?

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more than 50%

56
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How urbanized is MDCs?

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80%

57
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How urbanized is LDCs?

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54%

58
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What are Wirth’s Characteristics of Cities?

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  1. Large population and area
  2. High population Density
  3. Socially Heterogenous
59
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Why does Wirth claim that most LDC people live like “urbanities”?

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Due to telecommunications and internet

60
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How many people are in Mega-LDC cities?

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10 million +

61
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How many most populated cities are in LDCs?

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41/50
ex: Jakarta, Delhi, Manila, Shanghai, Mexico City

62
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What are the 3 fastest growing LDCs?

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Beihai, China
Ghaziabad, India
Sana’a, Yemen

63
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What are the 2 MDC cities that are in the top 10 of population?

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NYC and Tokyo

64
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Sub-Sharan Africas urbanization rate:

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43% and rising

65
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East Asia’s urbanization rate:

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68%

66
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Latin America’s urbanization rate:

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80%

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