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