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    Service

    Any activity that fulfills a human want or need and returns money to those who provide it

    Settlement

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

    2/3, 1/2

    Services generate more than ________ of GDP in most developed countries and ________ in most developing countries

    Consumer, business, public

    What are the three subdivisions of the service sector?

    Consumer services

    Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail, education, health, and leisure services

    B

    Which is not one of the main types of consumer services?
    A. Leisure and hospitality services
    B. Transportation and information services
    C. Education services
    D. Health and social services
    E. Retail and Wholesale services

    Business services

    Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services

    1/4

    ______________ of all jobs are in business services

    Professional, financial, transportation

    What are the three main types of business services?

    FIRE: Finance, insurance, real estate

    What is financial services often referred to as and what does it stand for?

    Public services

    Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses.

    Global recession of 2008

    What impacted the service sector the most?

    Because locating near the consumers is what services want to do however finding the optimal amount and type of land as well as the best location is difficult

    Why is it both easy and difficult to determine the optimal location for a service?

    Central Place Theory

    A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther.

    Sedona, Marana, Yuma

    What are some examples of market towns in Arizona?

    Bisbee

    What is an example of a village in Arizona?

    Flagstaff, Scotsdale

    What are some examples of towns in Arizona?

    Phoenix

    What is an example of a city in Arizona?

    Town

    a nucleated settlement that contains a CBD but that is small and less functionally complex than a city

    Market Town

    A town with a market, not much else around

    Village

    A community of people smaller than a town

    Disney workers (leisure), Grocers (retail), Private tutor

    What are some examples of consumer services?

    Architect, Lawyer (iffy), accountant

    What are some examples of business services?

    Cops, Military (most govt jobs)

    What are some examples of Public Services?

    Central Place

    A market center for the exchange of services by people attracted from the surrounding area.

    Market area or Hinterland

    The area surrounding a central place from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services.

    Range

    The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service.

    Threshold

    The minimum number of people needed to support the service

    Rank-size rule

    A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement.

    Primate City Rule

    A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the largest settlement has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

    Primate City

    The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.

    Gravity Model

    A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service.

    Market Area

    A _________________ is a good example of a nodal region

    Range and Threshold

    To determine the extent of a market area, geographers need two pieces of information about service: _____________ and _____________

    Concert, professional ball game

    The range for activities such as _____________ is high

    Groceries, coffee, clothing

    The range for activities such as _________________ is low

    Compute the Range, Compute the threshold, draw the market area

    How does one decide whether a new store will be profitable in an area?

    Linear Settlement

    Buildings clustered along a river, road, or dike to facilitate communications

    nonlinear settlement

    The best location of a service in a ______ settlement is determined by first identifying where potential users live, measuring the distance the users would travel from the site, dividing each potential user by the distance to the potential site, and then adding all of the results and dividing by the distances. Finally, compare the results for all possible sites to determine the optimal location for the service.

    best location minimizes distance car must travel to deliver to all potential customers; responds to median; gravity model; the service should be located with half the customers to the north and half to the south. If the distribution of customers isn't equal, you locate near the most customers

    How is the best location in a linear settlement determined?

    1. identify a possible site
    2. identify where every potential user lives
    3. measure the distance from the site to each potential user
    4. divide each potential user by the distance to the site
    5. add it all up.
    6. select another possible location and repeat 2-5
    7. compare the results. the site with the highest number is the best location

    How is the best location in a nonlinear settlement determined?

    overlapping hexagons of different sizes based on the four levels of market area (in order from smallest to largest) -- hamlet, village, town, city

    Explain the nesting pattern of services and settlements.

    Economic, Political, Cultural, and Infrastructural

    What are the factors used to identify global cities

    Economic factors

    Includes number of headquarters for multinational corporations, financial institutions, and law firms that influence the global economy

    Political factors

    Includes hosting headquarters for international organizations and capitals of countries that play a leading role in international events

    Cultural Factors

    Includes presence of renowned cultural institutions, influential media outlets, sports facilities, and educational institutions

    Infrastructural Factors

    Includes a major international airport, health-care facilities, and advanced communications systems

    Offshore financial services and Back-office functions

    What are the two types of business services in developing countries

    Basic industry

    Industry producing goods or services for sale to other regions

    Nonbasic Industry

    Industry producing goods or services for sale within the local region

    Economic Base

    A community's collection of basic industries.

    Examples of settlements specializing in business services

    General business: Chicago, LA, NY, San Francisco; Computing and data processing services: Boston and San Jose; High-tech industries support services: Austin, Orlando, and Raleigh-Durham; Military activity support services: Albuquerque, Colorado Springs, Huntsville, Knoxville, and Norfolk; Management-consulting services: DC

    Examples of settlements specializing in consumer services

    Entertainment and recreation: Atlantic City, Las Vegas and Reno; Medical services: Rochester, Minnesota

    Examples of settlements specializing in public services

    State capitals; large universities; military bases

    Clustered rural settlement

    a rural settlement in which the houses and farm buildings of each family are situated close to each other and fields surround the settlement

    Circular rural settlements

    These comprise a central open space surrounded by structures

    Economic, political, cultural, infrastructural factors

    What four factors are used to identify global cities?

    Global cities

    _____________________ may be centers of national or international political power

    Taxes (Low or nonexistent) and privacy (Bank secrecy to evade discloser in their home countries)

    What two important functions in the global circulation of capital do offshore centers provide?

    Answering phones and questions

    What are back-office functions comprised of?

    Low wages and the ability to speak English

    Why are certain developing countries attractive to back offices

    Talent distribution

    peeps with talents gravitate places with more cultural diversity and job opportunities; relationship between talent and diversity (Washington, San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle ranked highest)

    Talent

    A combo of the percentage of ppl in the city with college degrees, the percentage employed as scientists or engineers, and the percentage employed as professionals or technicians.

    Number of cultural facilities per capita, the percentage of gay men, and a coolness index

    What are three measures of cultural diversity?

    Coolness Index

    Combined the percent of population in their 20s, the number of bars and other nightlife places per capita, and the number of art galleries per capita

    Dispersed rural settlement

    A rural settlement pattern characterized by isolated farms rather than clustered villages.

    Linear rural settlement

    Comprise buildings clustered along a road, river, or dike to facilitate communications

    Protection, shared goods and services, preserve culture and religion

    Why would people be in a clustered rural settlement?

    Enclosure Movement

    The 18th century privatization of common lands in England, which contributed to the increase in population and the rise of industrialization.

    Brought greater agricultural efficiency but destroyed self-contained world of village life.

    What is an advantage and disadvantage of the enclosure movement?

    Provide consumer services (Burying dead)

    Why were the first early settlements formed?

    Religion, Protection

    What are examples of early public services?

    Food storage

    What are examples of early business services?

    Mesopotamia (then diffused west to Egypt and east to China)

    Where did the earliest urban settlements originate?

    Urbanization

    An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.

    Large size (In rural settlements you know most of the other inhabitants because not many people but in urban settlements you only know a small percentage of the other residents), High density (Lots of people in urban areas but not many in rural. This can create social consequences for urban residents but also encourages competition), Social Heterogeneity (The larger the settlement the greater variety of people)

    What three characteristics produce differences in the social behavior of urban and rural residents?

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