definitions first midterm Flashcards
Globalization
The growing interdependence of countries through the increasing variety and volume of cross-boarder transactions in goods and services and international capital flows and through the rapid and widespread diffusion of technology
Scales
National/Regional
Metropolitan
Global
Capitalism
an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
Elements of industrial cities
factories
railroads
slums
Why were there slums in industrial cities
Mass production meant mass housing for factory workers
Houses built in a hurry
Multinational corporations
Corporations that have many activities and concerns located in multiple nation-states, but that remain fundamentally attached to a “home” nation-state
Transnation corporations
Corporations that are fundamentally unattached to a single nation-state, and thus are freer to pursue global strategies that may conflict with the interests of nation-states
Core regions
act as dominant producers of high-order information for export and serve as command and control (management) points . Centres of economic, political, and/or cultural power.
Periphery regions
“Controlled” or managed cities and operate economically on the margins of the global economy (Auckland, Lagos, Lima)
Semi-Periphery regions
regions that are moving toward world city status as their economies start to prosper
Mercantile Cities
fronted by royal, religious, public, and private buildings evincing wealth and prosperity, power and influence
Urban Hierarchy (5)
Hamlet
Village
Town
City
Megalopolis
Rank Size Rule
Rule that states that the population of any given town should be:
inversely proportional to its rank in the country’s hierarchy
when the distribution of cities according to their sizes follows a certain pattern
Urban Systems
The ways cities are related in interlinked, dependent ways based on changing transportation and communications technologies
