10.pptUrbanization-Terms
- City – a concentrated, nonagricultural human settlement
- Urbanization – the process of concentrating people in cities
- Hinterland – the region to which a city provides services and upon which it draws resources for its needs
Urbanization- Terms
- Primate City- a situation where a single city concentrates a high degree of a nation’s political, cultural, and economic activity
- Conurbation- (megalopolis) when several cities expand to the point where they merge together into a vast urban area
Sectors of an Economy
- Primary Sector- extracts resources directly from the earth
- Secondary Sector- turns raw materials into manufactured products
- Tertiary Sector- the service sector
- Basic Sector- the part of a city’s economy that is producing exports
- Nonbasic Sector- the part of a city’s economy that serves the needs of the city itself
City Functions
- Cities fulfill a number of basic economic needs. These can include:
- Manufacturing
- Retailing
- Commerce
- Transportation/Warehousing
- Government
City Functions
- Business Services
- Communications
- Defense
- Entertainment
- Religion
- Education
- Retirement
Location Factors
- Break-of-bulk point: a location along a transportation route where goods, or people, must be transferred from one carrier to another
- Entrepot: A place, usually a port city, where goods are imported, stored, and transshipped
- Strategic location: a place where transportation routes converge
Location Factors
- Commercial opportunities
- Climate
- Political: near, or distant, from cultural core
- Forward Capital: a national capital moved away from the cultural core for political reasons
