1. Urban Settlement Patterns
AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
·    The cultivation of plants and domestication of animals that likely started in the Middle East about years ago.

2. ·        The mechanization of labour which allowed greater output with less people and food surpluses were created.

3. This allowed people to become specialists in other areas and thus industrialization followed.

4. BASIC AND NON-BASIC INDUSTRY – ECONOMICS   How money is brought into and created within the community   Basic Industries (Think Big!) Examples???

5. Non-basic Industries (Think not-big) Examples???

6. MULTIPLIER EFFECT
New Business
** Most jobs in urban places on non-basic, however, are dependent on basic jobs. Generally the ratio is 3 non-basic to 1 basic.

7. CHRISTALLER’S CENTRAL PLACE THEORY
Walter Christaller (German geographer) created this model in 1933 to explain why large cities or towns are located far apart and why small towns or villages are relatively close together.
Based on the idea that any good or service offered by a central place requires a threshold population.
High-order – examples???
(found only big cities)
Middle-order - examples???
(found in large towns and cities)
Low-order – examples???
(found in every town)

8. CHRISTALLER’S CENTRAL PLACE THEORY

9. FUN STUFF!!! ACTIVITY: Central Place Theory
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You may work with a partner.