Chapter 12: Key Issue 3 – Flashcards
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Major characteristics of global cities
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-Economic factors -Political -Cultual -I
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What are typical back-office functions?
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Business-process outsourcing including insurance claims, processing payroll management, transcription work, & other routine clerical activities.
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Why have LDCs been able to attract back offices?
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Low wages & ability to speak English
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Basic Industry Definition
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Industries thats sell their products or services primarily to consumers outside the settlement.
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Non-Basic Industry Definition
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Industries sell their products primarily to consumers in the community.
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What is the ecumenic base of a community?
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A community's unique collection of basic industries.
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Explain how a basic industry creates new types of jobs.
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New basic industries attract new workers to a settlement who then bring their families with them. Then the settlement attracts additional consumer services.
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Cleveland's economic base during the industrial period...
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Steel
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Cleveland's economic base in post-industrial society is...
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Health services ; medical high-tech research.
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Baltimore's economic base during the industrial period...
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Manufacturers of fabricated steel
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Baltimore's economic base in post-industrial society is...
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Provision of services in biotech.
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What dis Richard Florida's research deduce?
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There is a positive relationship btwn the distribution of talent & the distribution of diversity in the largest US cities.
