Get homework out and prepare for reading quiz!

1. Get homework out and prepare for reading quiz!

2. Give an example of a type of job in the following categories: - consumer service, - a business service, • and a public service 2. What is a central business district? (CBD) 3. What is a primate city?

3. Chapter 12 Services

4. Service

5. Where did Services Originate?

6. Types of Services • Consumer • Business • Public

7. Consumer Services • Retail and wholesale • Education • Health • Leisure and hospitality

8. Business Services • Financial • Professional • Transportation and similar services

9. Public Services • Provide security and protection

10. Why are Consumer Services Distributed in a Regular Pattern? • Based on the size of a settlement

11. Central Place Theory * Relationship b/t settlements of different sizes * Goods and services * Walter Chistaller (1930s)- southern Germany

12. Central Place Theory • Services will have a market area or hinterlandof potential costumers • Urban settlements will have a market area • Range- max. distance that people are willing to travel for a service • Threshold- minimum # of people needed to support a service

13. Gravity Model • Best location for a service is directly related to the # of people in the area • Inversely related to the distance traveled

14. Hierarchy of Services • Larger settlements will provide consumer services that have large thresholds, ranges, and market areas • Rank size rule: nth-largest settlement is 1/nth the population of the largest settlement

15. Primate city rule: • Much larger or more important than any other city in that country

16. Get homework out. Prepare for reading quiz.

17. Reading Guide Unit 6.4 • What is a hinterland? • Describe the difference between range and threshold. • What is a primate city?

18. Remain silent while announcements are on. Get homework out. Prepare for quiz.

19. Reading Quiz Unit 6.5 • What is a city-state? • What is the central business district? • Why is the amount of suburbs in the United States expanding?

20. Tomorrow 3 FRQ’s timed. 60 minutes. • Demographic transition model (Chapter 2) • Extinction of languages (Chapter 5) • International organizations (NATO and the EU) (Chapter 8)

21. Warm Up Monday 5/2 What effect do you think Bin Laden’s death will have on Al-Qaeda? What are your opinions on the “patriotic celebrations” that are happening in New York and D.C.? Get homework out

22. Donald Trump was quoted saying “I will not believe that Bin Laden is dead until I see the death certificate.”

23. Bin Laden now regrets using his iPhone app to find his “current location”

24. Rank Size Rule in NC • Charlotte-734242 • Raleigh-403-,8923 • Greensboro -269,6664 • WinstonSalem-229,6175 • Durham-228,3306 • Fayetteville-200,5647 • Cary-135,2348 • Wilmington-106,4769 • High Point-104,371 http://www.citypopulation.de/USA

25. 4 levels of cities • World cities • Regional command and control centers • Specialized producer-service • Dependent centers

26. Modern World Cities • Business services (financial) • Retail services and leisure and cultural services • National/international power • Important international stock exchanges • London, New York, Tokyo

27. Command and control centers • Headquarters of large corporations • Concentration of business services • Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Des Moines

28. Specialized producer service • Management and research • Development activities • Detroit

29. Dependent centers • Depended on decisions made in world cities • For economic well b eing • Unskilled jobs • San Diego- industrial and military dependent

30. Why do Services Cluster Downtown? • Central Business district: • Center of a city where services have clustered • 3 types of retail: • High threshold • Long range • Serve people who work in center

31. CBD • department store • specialized shops • Advertising and banking

32. CBD • Land costs are high • Skyscrapers give distinctive image

33. Suburbs • Businesses spreading to suburbs • Peripheral location • Land costs/customers