13534007567 | venture capitalists | Individuals or companies that invest in new businesses in exchange for partial ownership of those businesses. | 0 | |
13534007568 | Deterritorialization | The movement of economic, social and cultural processes out of the hands of states. | 1 | |
13534007569 | conspicuous consumption | Buying and using products because of the "statement" they make about social position | 2 | |
13534007570 | Protectionism | Economic policy of shielding an economy from imports. | 3 | |
13534007571 | Gallatin Plan | A plan, devised by Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1808, that attempted to parallel land and water trafficways along the *Atlantic seaboard*, establish connections between Atlantic streams and *western waters*, connect the *Great Lakes system*, and create a system of *westward roads to the frontiers* | 4 | |
13534007572 | Christaller's Central Place Theory | A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. | 5 | |
13534156695 | Bochert's Model of Urban Evolution | He refers to 5 different distinct periods of time each shows the particular transport technology in the creation and differential rates | 6 | |
13534156696 | Sail-Wagon Epoch | Period of expansion with primitive overland and waterway circulation - leading cities northeastern ports heavily oriented to European overseas trade - Hinterlands barely accessible. | 7 | |
13534156697 | Steamboat epoch | They used steamboats to travel upriver | 8 | |
13534156698 | Automobile Epoch | 1920+; Transport Channel: Cars, trucks | 9 |
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