GEOG 1HA3 Lecture 13: Lecture 19 - November 17, 2017
20 Dec 2017
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Economic base: the set of economic activities upon which a community relies in order to generate income from elsewhere. Broad and varied vs. narrowly focused and dominated. Los angeles & las vegas (entertainment & tourism) Hartford, ct? (insurance capital of the united states) Battle creek, mi (cereal city usa) - kellogs. In many cases, the economic base & community identity of the community/region. Motor city, steel city, porkopolis (cincinnati), mill city (minnesota), sin city (vegas), space city (houston) The stages of the process of producing goods and services: primary, secondary, and. Goods producing vs. services: goods producing sectors: (making of stuffs and goods, primary: identification & extraction of raw materials. E. g. agriculture, forestry, mining (including oils & gas), fishing, etc: secondary: transformation into finished products. E. g. manufacturing, processing, construction, etc: service sector, tertiary: distribution and servicing of goods. Sometimes, this is delineated into tertiary (personal), quaternary (business) and quinary (government)
