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Doi Moi- economic reforms of the Communist Party of Vietnam to try and create a more social
economy.
Break of bulk point-The point at which a cargo is unloaded and broken up into smaller units
prior to delivery. This saves $.
-airport to seaport is most common bulk reducing industry.
-transportation(rail=cheap, truck=$, ship=cheapest). These costs decrease the more mileage
one goes.
• Site Factors=3 main factors are labor, land and capital. Labor is most important.
Labor-minimizing labor costs is very important to a company.
labor intensive industries-one within which labor and other compensation paid to employees
constitute a high percentage of expenses. That’s why textiles are all in LDC’s.
Land-industries are attracted to places with a cheap energy source.
i.e. niagra falls.
Capital-people often borrow $ to start companies. Michigan is home to the early car industry
because the regions banks were more willing to lend money to the industries pioneers.
9. Rate of Federal Corporate tax- if business don’t like the high taxes they move.
CH 13 now!
Metropolitan area – urban area + suburbs.
Urbanization patterns
1800 3%
1850 6%
1900 14%
1950 25%
2000 47%
now Over 50%!!!
Year Percent of population in urban areas,
11 largest cities
Tokyo
Mexico City
NYC
Sao Paulo
Mumbai
Dehli
Calcutta
Buenos Aires
Shanghai
Jakarta
L.A.
Cities have – high density, large size, social heterogeneity, self government, urbanized area.
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) – a method of measuring the functional area of a city.
Includes
1. urbanized area with a population of at least 50,000
2. the county within which the city is located
3. adjacent counties with a high population density and a large percentage of residents
working in the central city’s county.
1. Zoning restrictions
• Low occupance homes
• High occupance apartments
• Light industry – lighter machinery
• Heavy industry
• Special zones – schools, libraries
• Commercial – starbucks!
2. Greenbelt – Europe, Canada
• Draw a line and say, outside of this, nothing but farms.
• Causes values of land to go up, due to less land.
3. Green Space
• Hyde park, developers wanted to build, county bought it up, kept it green.
Islam
High windows
Quarters reserved for Christians, muslims, and jews.
Mosque in center of city
Multiple Nuclei Model – more than one CBD(nodes) Urban realms model
Conurbations!!!!!!!
Urban Renewal – the GOVERNMENT remodels old crappy houses and makes them fit for living.
These houses attract gays, young couples, and mainly people with no kids so u
Gentrification – middle class people move into crappy ghetto houses and fix it up.
Urban renewal is done by the government and gentrification is done by the homeowners!!!!!!
- similar size cities are the same distance from each other.
Range – how far people are willing to travel to get something.
- you will travel farther for higher end goods
Threshold – minimum # of customers needed to sustain a business.
Breaking point – line where customers change their mind about where to drive for a service
Latin America
Islam
High windows
Quarters reserved for Christians, muslims, and jews.
Mosque in center of city
Rank size rule
Only for core countries General rule – the 2nd largest city is ½ the size of the first. Whatever
rank the city is, that number goes in the denominator over 1.
i.e. the 4th largest city is ¼ the size of the largest city
Primate City Rule
The largest city is twice the size of the next largest city. Think of Georgia, Atlanta is twice
more the size of Savannah.