GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Battle Creek, Michigan, Quinary, Maquiladora
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The economic base gets reflected in the identity of the community. Moto city, steel city, porkopolis, mill city, sin city, space city. Consider sports teams: denver nuggets, houston rockets, detroit pistons, edmonton oilers, chicago bulls, economic base is connected to cultural and community identity. The stages of the process of producing goods and services: primary, secondary, and tertiary: goods producing vs. services, goods producing sectors, primary: identification and extraction of raw materials, eg. Agriculture, forestry, mining (including oil and gas), fishing, etc: secondary: transformation of raw materials into finished products, manufacturing, processing, construction, etc, service sector, tertiary: distribution and servicing of goods, consumer (personal) and business services, eg. Sometime, this is delineated into tertiary, quaternary, and quinary. Levels of economic development are often correlated with the relative sizes of these different sectors. Less developed economies: primary and secondary sectors: more developed economies: service sector, canada & us: ~85% of employment is in the service sector (varies by region)