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Development
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Improving material condition
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More dev regions inclide
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N. America, Europe
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Less dev regions include
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Latin America, E. Asia, S. Asia, SW Asia, Sub Saharan Africa
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Mdc more often found
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Northern hemisphere
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Gender inequality challenge bcuz
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Poor reproductive health, literacy, health issues
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Gdp is
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gross domestic product
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Per capita gdp is bad indicator of
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Distribution of wealth
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Primary sector accounts for larger share of GDP for
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LDC
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Bcuz of tech. Workers in MDCs
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Produce more w/ less effort
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MDC, employment increasing in where
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Tertiary
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Social indicators of country's level of dev are
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Edu and literacy
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N America is worlds leading provider of what
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Business services
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SW Asia and N Africa show promises of being more dev bcuz of
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Oil
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GDI
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Level of indicators of females to males
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GEM
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Combines economic and political indicators of impowerment
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Country should what kind of asseets
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Primary, secondary, tertiary
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Self sufficiency approach to dev
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Creates barrier to protect local businesses
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LDC Biggest problem in financial dev
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Uneven distribution of resources, increase dependence, potential for market decline
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Demographic indicators of a country's level of dev
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Life expectancy, infant mortality, crude birth rate, age structure of pop, access to knowledge
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Worlds industrial production in 3 regions
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Europe, N America, E Asia
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Industrial rev began in
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Great Britain late 1700s
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Connections refer to
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Where markets for products are located and resources are
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Cottage industry system involved manufacturing where
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From hime
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E N America is continents manufac. center bcuz it has access to continents
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Largest makets
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Only step of copper prod that's not bulk reducing is
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Refining
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Shift in steel production described as
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Interregional shift
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Hondas
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Min cost of shipped cars to customers
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Metal fabrication
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Separate parts combined to make a more massive complex parts
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Lowest cost form of transportajok
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Ship
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More than one mode of transport will locate near what
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Break of bulk point
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Industrial areas outside n America and Europe important bcuz
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Site factors
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Aluminum manufactors locate near sources of what
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Low cost energy
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Most dependent on low cost labor found where
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Textiles
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Significant site factors include
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Labor, capital, land
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gulf coast important industrial area bcuz of
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Access to oil and natural gas
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Steel production declined in what country
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USA
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What Western European country most rapid manu growth
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Spain
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Main benefit for manufacturers is
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Reduced money a manf issues for wasteful invactory, and improves delivery time to custowmra
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Tech sophisticated Manu where they
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Have both experience and markets
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Which classification must locate where resources are found
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Primary
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Rel between urbanization and industrial rev
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Promoted urbanization
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Area of city retail and office activitys clustered
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Central d and b district
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Land values high in CBD bcuz
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Limited space
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Vertical geography
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1 Floor- commercial most exp
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Best housing in
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Downtown to the edge
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Diff neighborhoods of a city attract people of deferent
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Ethnic groups
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Not live in center in which region
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N America
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Underclass in which part of city
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Inner city
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Amount of sprawl in USA is more or less
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More
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Largest # of trips are made for
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Work
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Largest % pop USA Lives in
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City's 52%
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Megalopolis
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Vertical overlapping
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City + surroundings built up suburbs is
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Urbanized area
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Banks refuse to lend money is called
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Redlining
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Where are homes of the most impoverished and unskilled
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Outer most zone, the fringe
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Site components enable the formation of 1st citys
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•proximity to famlamd
•irrigation •natural difference |
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83% of all services in MDC
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Consumer, business, public
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Diapered rural settlement comprised of
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Farms isolated from neighbors
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Buildings homes churches found together is
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Clustered rural settlements
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Urban areas more likely than rural to have
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•larger size
•high density •heterogenity |
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Far distances for _______ and short distances for______
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Entertainment
Everyday activitys |
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Periodic markets
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Vendors come together, offer goods and services on separate days
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Central place predicts larger settlement spaced how
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Less numerous, far apart
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1,000 inhabitants, 200,000 inhabitants. What distribution
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Rank size distribution
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Market area ex of
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Functional
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Hierarchiary organization of settlements by size known as
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Urban hierarchy
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What factors det where back office services will locate in LDC
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Low age rates and English speaking
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Dev has allowed back office services to relocate to LDC
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Telo communication/ technology
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