chapter 12 lecture contemporary human geography 3 edition

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Chapter 12 Lecture

Contemporary

Human

Geography

3rd Edition

Chapter 12:

Services &

Settlements

Marc Healy

Elgin Community College


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12.1 Types of Services

• Consumer Services

– Nearly one-half of all jobs in the United States

provide a consumer service.

• Retail and wholesale—department stores, grocers

and motor vehicle sales and service, for example

• Health and social services—hospitals, social

assistance, and other health-care services

• Education services

• Leisure and hospitality services—restaurants,

bars, lodging, and the arts and entertainment


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• Consumer Services

Leisure and Hospitality Services

Retail and Wholesale

Health and Social Services

Education Services


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• Business Services

– The principal purpose of a business service is

to facilitate the activities of other businesses.

– One-fourth of all jobs in the United States are in

business services.

• Professional services—technical services and

support services

• Transportation and information services—trucking,

publishing, broadcasting, and utilities

• Financial services—finance, insurance, and real

estate (FIRE)


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• Business Services

Transportation and Information Services

Professional Services

Financial Services


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• Public Services

– A public service is to provide security and

protection for citizens and businesses.

– Most jobs are in federal, state, and local

governments.


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• Changes in Job Sectors

– Between 1972 and 2013, all of the growth in

employment in the United States was in

services, whereas employment in primary-

and secondary-sector activities declined.

– The service sector was also the sector that

was impacted the most by the severe

recession that began in 2008.


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• Changes in Job Sectors


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12.2 Central Place Theory

• Central Place Theory

– Central place theory, first proposed in the

1930s by German geographer Walter

Christaller, helps explain how the most

profitable location can be identified.


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• Market Area of a Service

– A central place is a market center where

people cluster to buy and sell goods and

services.

– To represent a market area (or hinterland) in

central place theory, geographers draw

hexagons around settlements.


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– The United States can be divided into market

areas based on the hinterlands surrounding

the largest urban settlements.


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• Range of a Service

– To determine the

extent of a market

area, geographers

need two pieces of

information about

a service: its range

and its threshold.


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• Threshold of a Service

– The threshold is the minimum number of

people needed to support the service.

– Convenience stores and fast-food restaurants

appeal to nearly everyone, whereas other

goods and services appeal primarily to certain

consumer groups.


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12.3 Hierarchy of Consumer Services

• Nesting of Services

and Settlements – Developed countries

have many small

settlements with

small thresholds and

ranges and far fewer

large settlements

with large thresholds

and ranges.


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• Rank-Size Distribution of Settlements

– Many developed countries conform to the

rank-size rule, in which the country’s nth-

largest settlement is 1/n the population of the

largest settlement.

– Many less-developed countries follow the

primate city rule, in which the largest

settlement, called the primate city, has more

than twice as many people as the second-

ranking settlement.


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• Rank-Size Distribution of Settlements


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12.4 Market Area Analysis

• Profitability of a Location

– Geographers use the two components of

central place theory—range and threshold—to

determine whether a location would be

profitable. Here’s how:

• Define the market area.

• Estimate the range.

• Estimate the threshold.

• Predict the market share.


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• Profitability of a Location


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• Periodic Markets

– A periodic market is a collection of individual

vendors who come together to offer goods

and services in a location on specified days.

– Periodic market frequencies vary by culture:

• Muslim countries—Markets are once a week in

each of six cities, with no market on Friday, the

Muslim day of rest.

• Rural China—Markets operate in three locations

on alternating three day cycles, and no market on

the tenth day. Three cycles fit in a lunar month.


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• Periodic Markets

– Periodic market frequencies vary by culture:

• Korea—Two 15-day market cycles fit in a lunar

month.

• Sub-Saharan Africa—Markets occur every 3 to 7

days. Variations in the cycle stem from ethnic

differences.


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12.5 Hierarchy of Business Services

• Business Services in Global Cities

– Financial institutions

• Corporations obtain and store funds for expansion of

production in centers of finance.

– Headquarters of large corporations

• Shares of these corporations are bought and sold on

stock exchanges located in global cities.

– Lawyers, accountants, and other professional

services

• Global cities provide advice to major corporations

and financial institutions.


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• Ranking Global Cities

– A combination of factors are used to identify and

rank global cities:

• Economic factors—number of headquarters for

multinational corporations, financial institutions, and

law firms that influence the global economy

• Political factors—hosting headquarters for

international organizations and capitals of countries

that play a leading role in international events

• Cultural factors—presence of renowned cultural

institutions, influential media outlets, sports facilities,

and educational institutions


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– A combination of factors are used to identify and

rank global cities:

• Infrastructural factors—a major airport, health-care

facilities, and advanced communications systems

• Communications—Computers in the twentieth

century make it possible to communicate

immediately with coworkers, clients, and customers

around the world.

• Transportation—Motor vehicles and airplanes make

it possible to deliver people, inputs, and products

quickly.


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• Consumer and Public Services in Global

Cities

– Because of their large size, global cities have

consumer services with extensive market

areas, but they may have even more

consumer services than large size alone

would predict.


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12.6 Business Services in Developing

Countries

• Offshore Financial Services

– Small countries exploit niches in the

circulation of global capital by offering

offshore financial services.

• Taxes—Taxes on income, profits, and capital gains

are typically low or nonexistent.

• Privacy—Bank secrecy laws can help individuals

and businesses evade disclosure in their home

countries.


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Countries

• Offshore Financial Services


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Countries

• Business-Process Outsourcing

– Selected developing countries have attracted

back offices for two reasons related to labor:

• Low wages—What is regarded as menial and

dead-end work in developed countries may be

considered relatively high-status work in

developing countries.

• Ability to speak English—In Asia, countries such as

India, Malaysia, and the Philippines have

substantial numbers of workers with English-

language skills.


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12.7 Economic Specialization of

Settlements

• Economic Base

– The economic activities in a settlement can be

divided into two types:

• A basic business exports primarily to customers

outside the settlement.

• A nonbasic business serves primarily customers

living in the same settlement.

– The economic base of a settlement is its

unique cluster of basic businesses.


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Settlements

• Economic Base


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Settlements

• Distribution of Talent

– Some cities have a higher percentage of

talented individuals such as scientists and

professionals.

– Richard Florida found that individuals with

special talents gravitate toward cities that offer

more cultural diversity, and developed a

“coolness” index to measure the desirability of

cities.


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Settlements

• Distribution of Talent


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12.8 Services in Rural Settlements

• Rural settlements are either clustered or

dispersed:

– A clustered rural settlement is an

agricultural-based community in which a

number of families live in close proximity to

each other, with fields surrounding the

collection of houses and farm buildings.

– A dispersed rural settlement is

characterized by farmers living on individual

farms isolated from neighbors rather than

alongside other farmers in settlements.


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• Clustered Rural Settlement

– Circular clustered rural settlements

• In sub-Saharan Africa, the Maasai people, who are

pastoral nomads, build circular settlements known

as kraal.

– Linear clustered rural settlements

• Long-lot farms can be seen today along the

St. Lawrence River in Québec.


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• Clustered Rural Settlement


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• Dispersed Rural Settlements

– U.S. dispersed rural settlements

• A dispersed pattern developed because most

immigrants to the Middle Atlantic colonies arrived

individually rather than as members of a cohesive

group, as in New England.

– U.K. dispersed rural settlements

• In the United Kingdom between 1750 and 1850, the

enclosure movement consolidated individually

owned strips of land surrounding a village into a

large farm owned by a single individual.


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• Dispersed Rural Settlements


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12.9 Urban Settlements in History

• Consumer services—The first permanent

settlements may have been places for nomads to

bury and honor their dead.

• Business services—Early urban settlements were

places where groups could store surplus food and

trade with other groups.

• Public services—Early settlements housed

political leaders as well as military forces to guard

the residents of the urban settlement and defend

the surrounding hinterland from seizure by other

groups.


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12.9 Urban Settlements in History


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12.10 Urbanization

• Percentage in Urban Settlements

– In developed countries, 77 percent

live in urban areas, compared to

48 percent in developing countries.

• The major exception is Latin America,

where the urban percentage is

comparable to developed countries.

– The population of Earth’s urban

settlements exceeded that of rural

settlements for the first time in

human history in 2008.


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12.10 Urbanization

• Percentage in Urban Settlements


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12.10 Urbanization

• Number in Urban Settlements

– Developed countries have a higher

percentage of urban residents, but developing

countries have more of the very large urban

settlements

– Eight of the 10 most populous cities today are

in developing countries.


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12.10 Urbanization

• Number in Urban Settlements

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