GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Saskia Sassen, Walter Christaller, Central Place Theory
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A geographical theory that seeks to explain the number, size and location of human settlements in an urban system. Created by german geographer walter christaller: asserted that settlements simply functioned as central places" providing services to surrounding areas. Saskia sassen: a place where the work of globalization gets done . Over 20th and 21st centuries, firms have become larger and require increasingly specialized information: this information is provided by producer services. Producer services found in large information-rich cities. The larger the city, the more information available for corporate decision-making. In the last 30 years rapid and widespread internationalization of businesses (multinational corporations (mncs) & transnational corporations (tncs): driven by: Improvements in communication/transportation technology (annihilation of space by time) Emblematic of processes found across global northern cities: knowledge-based jobs, decline of manufacturing, gentrification (professional classes taking over residential districts formerly occupied by the working class, social polarization (informal employment, urban underclass, ex: london.
