GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Global City, Megacity, Central Place Theory
16 Jan 2017
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Canada, like other more developed economices are going through economic transitions. Secondary to tertiary /quaternary: post-industrial": uneven transitions, re-shaped what people do every day. Deindustrialization: a recution in manufacturing employment and output, spatially concentrated, consequences are uneven. Shift to a post-industrial society: economic restructuring: manufacturing to services, production to consumption. People are employed to provide services to others. Modeling the transition in terms of food: primary/pre-industrial/subsistence. Food produced and consumed at home: secondary/industrial. Food made locally, purchased in a grocery: tertiary/post-industrial/service society. Are all these services alike: consumer services. Retail, education, health and leisure/hospitality: business services. Professional,financial, clerical, information and transportation: public services. These differences are nto absolute: consumers use lawyers, banks, etc, businesses use retail stores, hospitality, etc. Transition: one type of activity to another. Canada: industrial to post-industrial-as measured by employment and gdp. Employment: primary 5, secondary 20, tertiary 75% Gdp: primary 8, secondary 23, tertiary 68%
