Urban Settlement Patterns

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Urban Settlement Patterns

• AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
•     The cultivation of plants and domestication
  of animals that likely started in the Middle East
  about 10 000 years ago.
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        The mechanization of labour which
allowed greater output with less people and food
surpluses were created.
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This allowed people to become specialists in
other areas and thus industrialization followed.

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BASIC AND NON-BASIC INDUSTRY ECONOMICS How
money is brought into and created within the
community Basic Industries (Think
Big!) Examples???
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Non-basic Industries (Think not-big) Examples??
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MULTIPLIER EFFECT
Most jobs in urban places on non-basic,
however, are dependent on basic jobs. Generally
the ratio is 3 non-basic to 1 basic.
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CHRISTALLERS CENTRAL PLACE THEORY

• Walter Christaller (German geographer) created
  this model in 1933 to explain why large cities or
  towns are located far apart and why small towns
  or villages are relatively close together.
• Based on the idea that any good or service
  offered by a central place requires a threshold
  population.
• High-order examples???
• (found only big cities)
• Middle-order - examples???
• (found in large towns and cities)
• Low-order examples???
• (found in every town)

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CHRISTALLERS CENTRAL PLACE THEORY
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FUN STUFF!!!

• ACTIVITY Central Place Theory
• Page 238 39 Questions 1-7.
• You may work with a partner.