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9071298401Service job percentage in LDC's10%0
9071298402Serviceactivity that fulfills a human want or need for money that goes to the provider1
9071298403Settlementpermanent collection of buildings for residence, work, and to obtain services (1% Earth's surface)2
9071299519Consumer Servicesindividual consumers who can afford the service (44% of the US services)3
9071299520Consumer Service typesRetail/Wholesale-- 15%US (Wal-Mart, Dean's); Education-- 10%US (2/3 public, 1/3 private); Health-- 12%US; Leisure/Hospitality-- 10% (70% restaurants/bars, 30% lodging/entertainment) Business Services4
9071300638Business Servicesfacilitate other businesses (24% of the US services)5
9071300639Business Service typesfinancial-- 6% US (FIRE-- 1/2 finance, 1/3 insurance, rest real estate); professional-- 12% US (1/2 technical, 1/2 support); transportation/information-- 6% US (1/2 transportation, 1/2 informatio6
9071301606Public Servicessecurity/protection for businesses, citizens, local governments, 17% of the US services (1/4 federal governments, 1/4 50 state governments, 1/2 local governments)7
9071301607Business service that grew the most between 1972 and 2009professional-- engineering, management and law8
9071309380Consumer service that grew the most between 1972 and 2009health care-- hospital staff, clinics, nursing homes, and home health-care programs9
9071309381Education, entertainment, and recreation growth between 1972 and 2009large increases10
9071310283Earliest permanent settlements were established forconsumer services-- places to bury the dead, then priests may have been installed for the ceremonies11
90713102845,000 years ago, how many settlements existed?many settlements existed12
9071310285Tallest buildings before skyscrapers in the late 19th century were invented werereligious buildings13
9071312185Early settlements had women that stayed home and did what, and how did this evolve into present day buildings?they took care of the families while males went in search for food, they also made pots, tools, and clothing, and educated their children, and over thousands of yrs this turned into schools, libraries, theaters, museums and other institutions14
9071312186Needing material goods became a trend for people and what happened?tools, clothing, shelter, containers, fuel and other material goods made settlements manufacturing centers; men brought materials needed to make materials and women made the objects; people began to specialize and trade their services which evolved into a retail-service function15
9071313715Citadelscenters of military power16
9071313716Early Public Servicesfollowed religious activities; political leaders stayed permanently in strategic locations for defending the group's land; members became soldiers; protected food sources; made walls and defenders guarded small openings or stood on the top of the wall; settlements became citadels; walls proved good defense until 14th century when gunpowder was invented in Europe17
9071314357Early Business Servicestransportation services began when people brought in extra food for hard times; not every group had the same resources because of various landscapes so people brought in extra to trade with other people in the group; households became food storage centers and neutral group where people could safely trade food with the help of producer services who regulated terms of transactions, fair prices, records, and currency systems;18
9071314358Early Business Services: Beginning of Agthrough centuries of experiments people found out they could generate food from wild vegetation if deliberately placed in the ground and nursed to maturity; then settlements became surrounded by fields for planting seeds and raising animals19
9071314359Services in Ancient CitiesUrban settlements might originate in Mesopotamia (part Fertile Crescent of Middle East) and diffused to Egypt, China, South Asia's Indus Valley or originated in the 4 hearths20
9071315848Earliest Urban Settlements: Uroldest well-documented urban settlements is Ur (means fire) in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) dates back to 3,000 BC21
9071302615Finance and transportation growth between 1972 and 2009no growth because of new technology that improves efficiency and requires less jobs for people22
9071323562Earliest Urban Settlements: Titris HoyukTitris Hoyuk (Turkey) was 125-acre and 10,000 peeps, 2,500 BC with well-planned communities, Walls and streets laid out first; palaces, temples, other public buildings in center; cemetaries beyond walls; houses similar design dif sizes built around center courtyard with crypt; several cooking areas indicate extended families with evidence of wine and weaving23
9071323563Cryptwhere family members buried24
9071324522Knossos (island of Crete), Troy (Asia Minor-- Turkey), and Mycenae (Greece)First established in eastern Mediterranean 2,500 BC and some of the oldest settlements; trading centers and provided gov, military, protections and public services for thousands of islands in Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean; organized into city-states25
9071327326City-states26
9071328705Ancient Athens27
9071328706Ancient Rome28
9071329559Services in Medieval Cities: Urban revival29
9071329560Clustered rural settlement definition30
9071329561Dispersed rural settlement definition31
9071330870Clustered rural settlements32
9071330871Circular rural settlementscomprise a central open space surrounded by structures33
9071333981Circular rural settlements: Kraal VillagesSouthern Africa; has enclosures for livestock in center surrounded by rings of houses34
9071334944Circular rural settlements: Gewandorf settlementsGermany; core houses, churches, barns; then ag; then garden, forests, land35
9071335717Linear Rural Settlementsclustered along road, river, or dike; lots of land perpendicular to river and road inland parallel to river; lots of land parallel to original riverfront settlement (St. Lawrence river in Quebec)36
9071336945Clustered Settlements in Colonial America37
9071338521Dispersed Rural Settlements38
9071338522Dispersed Rural Settlements in US39
9071338523Dispersed Rural Settlements in Great Britain40
9071339322Beijing41
9071339323Enclosure movement42
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