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Chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| % of Jobs in U.S. consumer Services | 52.6% |
| % of Jobs in U.S. educational services | 9.6% |
| The area surrounding a service that customers are attracted to | Market Area |
| Maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service | Range |
| Central Place Theory | Helps explain how the most profitable location can be identified |
| Hierarchical listings of settlements by size | Rank-size rule |
| What is a primate city | Largest city in its country or region. |
| Gravity Model | predicts 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. |
| How are global cities defined | By their role in global business services |
| Explain Offshore Banking | people can get lower taxes in offshore centers, and they dont have to disclose these assetts in divorce |
| What do LDCs specialize in and what are their benefits | routine clerical activities because of their low wasges and the ability to speak English |
| What are back office functions called | Business-process outsourcing |
| Firm that sells its product outside the setttlement | basic business |
| What is the most important activity in the Great Lakes Region | advanced equipment and materials |
| What did Richard Florida say about distribution | |
| Why is new basic industry important to a community | exporting by basic businesses brings more money to the local economy |
| What is a place where homes farms and church buildings are close together | clustered rural settlement |
| Why was the French loan lot system developed | |
| What is the significance of Great Britain's enclosure movement | resulted in the consolidation of individually owned strips of land surrounding villages into large farms owned by single individuals. |
| What colonial American region were clustered rural settlements found | New England |
| What was the most prominent structure in the city of Ur, Athens | Ur: ziggurat Athens:Parthenon |
| All loads lead to | Rome |
| What urban change came after the fall of the Roman empire | Large urban settlemenets shrank. |
| How are mideival urban settlements characterized | a Feudal lord and his urban residents |
| Most people in the world live in what kind of settlement | Urban |
| Heterogeneity is characteristic of what 2 things | people in urban settlements have more freedom, |
| What are Urban settlements more tolerant of | A different unusual profession, sexual orientation, or cultural intrest |
| How is urbanization analyzed | |
| What is a city plus its built up suburbs | urban area |
| What defines a city that covers the largest functional area (U.S) | metropolitan statistical area |
| What is a census area based on community patterns | micropolitan statistical area |
| What is the zone where retail and office areas have been clustered | Central business district |
| Why do cities have convention centers and sports complexes within their central business district | because the CBD is the easiest area to access |
| How do officials exchange information in a central business district | Law firms stay in proximity to each other in the CBD |
| What service is least likely to be found in a central business district | Manufacturing |
| Why are land values high in a central business district | its accessability produces extremely high competition for land |
| What activity is usually located on the street level floor of a skyscraper | Commercial activities |
| The underground central business district is characterized by what | |
| Concentric zone model | |
| Sector Model | |
| Multiple nuclei model | |
| Why is Chicago a good location to develop urban models | |
| How are edge cities developed | |
| People and census tracts rarely exceed one number | |
| What does a social area analysis explain | |
| How are European central business districts similar to America’s | |
| What was the city structure of Beijing under the Yuan dynasty | |
| What laws were enacted in 1573 that outlined Spanish cities | |
| Where did the poor people on the outside of cities and LDCs live, What is it also known as | |
| What region are spine and dis-amenity zones associated with | |
| Mexico city was laid out like what other city, What laws were they laid out | |
| how old is the sun | 10000000000000000000000000000000000 years old |
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