Exam 12: Services and Settlements

What strategies could you propose to either end the practice of offshore financial services or dissuade companies and wealthy individuals from utilizing them? What advantages might the United States garner by ending or limiting access to these offshore services?

Discuss the apparent economic base(s) of your local community and its significance to your life at the present moment.

Take an inventory of the kinds of advertisements (in all media, print and electronic) that you encounter over the course of two days. Which of these ads pertain more to consumer services, and which pertain more to business services? How do these various kinds of ads contribute to the consumer culture within which we are immersed? Consider questions of socioeconomic class, gender, and ethnic identity as you formulate your responses to these questions.

Rapid urbanization continues today in the more developed countries.

Copenhagen and London are primate cities even though they are located in more developed countries.

People had established villages and other rural settlements in many parts of the world many thousands of years before the beginning of recorded history around 5,000 years ago.

Which statement best describes the relationship between urbanization and the Industrial Revolution in Europe?

-According to these "geography of talent" maps,

The threshold of a service is the maximum distance that most of the customers are willing to travel.

-The map of major urban settlements indicates that the vast majority of cities with more than two million residents

According to Louis Wirth, cities differ from rural areas in being larger, more dense, and more socially homogeneous.

World cities are defined by

What factors determine where back office services will locate in LDCs?

Discuss the possible reasons for the origin of settlements.

-This map of early urban settlements indicates that by 1 A.D.

A firm that sells its products primarily to consumers outside its settlement is a

Most geography textbooks describe business and consumer services as separate categories for purposes of study and planning, but in what ways do the various kinds of business and consumer services overlap? Discuss several examples where the lines between these categories are blurred or confused.

-This map of the percentage living in urban settlements indicates that the following countries are more than 75 percent urban:

Residents of rural settlements are more likely than residents of urban settlements to work in

None of the world's five most populous urban areas is located in Europe.