mdcs have more services in ldcs people work to produce food. a service is any activity that fulfills...

MDCs have more services

In LDCs people work to produce food.

A SERVICE is any activity that fulfills a want or need and returns money to those who provide it.

A SETTLEMENT is a permanent collection of buildings where people reside, work, and obtain services.

Where Did Services Originate?

• TYPES OF SERVICES• Consumer Services

• Retail, Wholesale, Education, Health, Leisure, Hospitality

• Business Services• Financial, Professional, Transportation

• Public Services• Government: Federal, State, Local

• Changing face of services• Most rapidly growing is Health Care


• ORIGIN OF SERVICES• Early Consumer Services

• Bury the dead• 1st settlements needed services

• Tools, clothing, pots, etc.• Early Public services

• Religious activities, political leaders, Defenders of the town wall

• Early Business Services• Food, goods


• Services in Contemporary Rural Settlements

• Clustered Rural Settlements

• Families live in close proximity and the fields surrounding the village

• Dividing fields for families

• Travel time

• Satellite settlements




• Circular rural Settlements

• The houses and structures of the village surround the fields

• Linear Rural Settlements

• Houses on the road

• Fields are in long strips behind the houses




• Colonial American Clustered Settlements

• Houses surround a common

• Families have outer fields to grow food

• In the south the Plantation developed in the 1700s


• Services in Contemporary Rural Settlements• Dispersed Rural Settlements

• Farms in isolation from neighbors, spread out across the landscape

• Most common in the U.S.• People were not as unified.• Wanted to work large tracks of land, not

discontinuous fields.• Enclosure movement

• Agricultural efficiency; bad village life.

Why are Consumer Services Distributed in a Regular Pattern?

• CENTRAL PLACE THEORY

• Central Place

• Market Area of Service

• Market Area/Hinterland

• How to represent a market area?


• Size of Market area

• Range of Service

• Range: the maximum distance someone is willing drive to use a service

• Short distance?

• Long distance?

• Range is measured in TIME not distance


• Size of Market area

• Threshold of Service

• Threshold: the minimum number of consumers needed to maintain a service

• Where would you put a mall?


• MARKET-AREA ANALYSIS

• Profitability of a location

• Need to know range and threshold

• Optimal Location within a market

• Minimizes the distance to the service for the largest number of people

• Best location in a linear settlement?

• Best locaton in a non-linear settlement?


• Hierarchy of Services and settlements

• Small settlements vs Large settlements

• Nesting of services and settlements

• Overlapping hexagons of four different sizes

• Rank-Size Distribution of Settlements

• Rank-size Rule

• Primate City Rule

• Works in MDCs


• Hierarchy of Services and settlements

• Periodic Markets

• Offer service on certain days

• Mobile services

Why Do Business Services Locate in Large Settlements?

• World Cities

• Ancient World Cities

• Earliest Urban Settlements

• Ur

• Titris Hoyuk

• Ancient Athens

• City-state

• Ancient Rome

• “All Roads Lead to Rome”


• Medieval World Cities

• Releasing the Serfs

• Better roads

• Power centers

• Walls

• Dense and compact


• Modern world cities

• Business transactions

• Transportation

• Communication

• Business services in World Cities

• Product of the industrial revolution

• Financial services for corporate HQs


• Consumer Services in World Cities

• Extensive market areas

• Leisure services

• Public services in World Cities

• Centers of political power

• Foreign corporations

• Example: The UN in New York


• HIERARCHY OF BUSINESS SERVICES• Four levels in the Hierarchy

• World Cities (1st level)• Three major centers: London, New

York, Tokyo• Second Tier Cities: Chicago, Los

Angeles, Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris• Third Tier Cities: Houston, Miami,

San Francisco, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro


• HIERARCHY OF BUSINESS SERVICES

• Four levels in the Hierarchy

• Command Control Centers (2nd Level)

• HQs of major corporations

• Concentrations of business services

• Cities like: Atlanta, Baltimore, Seattle, Phoenix, Philadelphia




• Specialized Producer-Service Centers (3rd level)

• Research and Development Activities

• Detroit, Pittsburgh, Rochester, San Jose




• Dependent Centers (4th Level)

• Provide unskilled jobs

• Four subtypes

• Resort

• Manufacturing

• Industrial military

• Mining


• Economic Base of Settlements

• Basic industries

• Nonbasic industries

• Economic Base can be determined by figuring out how many people work in different types of businesses. Then comparing it to the percentage of workers in the rest of the country.


• Specialization of Cities in Different Services• Detriot, Gary, Albuquerque, Reno, etc.

• Business Services in LDCs• Offshore financial services

• Global circulation of capital• Back offices

• Outsourcing • Cheaper in LDCs

• Talent: unevenly distributed

Why Do Services Cluster Downtown?

• Central Business District

• Easily accessible

• Usually the oldest part of town

• Large concentration of offices, shops, and public institutions

• AKA – “Downtown”


• Retail Services in the CBD (Three Types)

• Retail Services with a High Threshold

• Retail Services with a High Range

• Very specialized with infrequent visitors

• Retail Services Serving Downtown Workers

• Examples: Office supplies or specialized auto services.

• Business Services

• Offices cluster in specific areas for ease of communication – FACE to FACE


• High Land Costs in the CBD

• Not much space, land is expensive

• Intensive land use

• Use land above and below ground

• Skyscrapers

• Economically feasible

• Vertical space vs. Horizontal Space


• Activities Excluded from the CBD• Declining Manufacturing in the CBD

• Revolves around the need for land• Lack of residents in CBDs

• People lived downtown, moved out, the poor were there, now people are moving back.

• European CBDs• Less dominated by commercial

considerations. • Renovation not construction of new


• Suburbanization of Businesses

• Retail

• Since WWII retail has dropped in the CBD and increased in the suburbs

• Shopping Malls

• Factories and Offices

• Find cheaper land

• Better communication allows work to be done outside the CBD

• Suburban working can be a hardship

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