Cities
Theory that explains location of cities and services in relation to one another
Types of jobs involving manufacturing
What is secondary jobs?
When women become involved in the economy and workforce, does a country become more successful?
What is yes
NAFTA
What is North American Federal Trade Agreement
Economic dominance by developed regions
What is core periphery model
Suburban business centers on the outskirts of cities
What is Edge-Cities?
Types of jobs involving extracting raw minerals from Earth
What is primary sector jobs?
Mexican factories that offered cheaper labor and building costs for manufacturing products
What are maquilladoras
Environmentally responsible tourism
What is ecotourism?
HAs five stages of economic development
what is Rostow model
The theory on how price and demand on real estate change as distance towards the CBD increases
What is the Bid-Rent Theory?
What are three factors of production
Land, Labor, Capitol, Entrepruneurship
What types of jobs involve information and technology?
What is quarternary jobs?
Location specific costs (Land & Labor)
What is site factors
Has a core, periphery, and semi periphery distinction
wallerstein model
The process of wealthier individuals starting to integrate into a less-wealthy district
Gentrification
An industry in which the final product weighs less than the raw material that was originally input
what is bulk-reducing industry?
Part of an economy that is not offially recorded
What is an informal economy
A city with the largest size and power within a country. Double the size of the next largest city
What is primate city
what is a Sector Model
The pattern of settlements in a country that the largest settlement is nth is 1/n the population of it
What is Rank-Size Rule?
What is Break of Bulk points
What are the types of jobs involving Health Services and leadership roles?
Measures quality of life using education, income, and life expectancy
what is HDI
A key differentiator that seperates Latin American cities from most other cities around the world
what is wealth distribution (wealthy are farther from the city)