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First Industrial Revolution
It started like in Europe especially in the colonies. -
Transportation
Relatively inexpensive transporttion is one of the foundaations on which the flexible production system rests. Cost is not the only issue. Manufactures also consider the availablity of alternative system in the event of emergencies. -
During Industrial Revolution
innovations in iron manufacturing enabled the production of the steam. -
Tourism Services
Every service industry has its own locatinal characteristics but tourism is almost in a class by itself. Tourism grew dramatically in the second half of the tweintieth century. -
Diffusion to Mainland Europe
In the ealy 11800s as innovations of Britians Industrial Revolution diffused to mainland Europe, same set of locational criteria for industrial zones. -
Place vulnerabilities in a sevice economy
Every type of economy carries with it potential vulnerabilities. In the early industrialization the economic destines of places ws tied to the manufacturing operations established in those places. -
Flexible Production and Product life cycle
These system are thus designed to respond to consumers who want the newest/best/greatest offering. Procut life cycle changes the production of a good over time take place as part of it. -
Weber
Weber least cost theory most important category was transportation. The second cost was labor and the third cost was agglomeration. Weber held that the industries could assist each other. -
Fordist Production
In addition to of its role in facilating mass production, economic geographers also see the Fordist system as encompassing a set of political eeconomic structures. -
Diffusion beyond Europe
Western Europes industrialization gave it a huge head start and put the region at the center of developing world economy. -
The Global Division of Labor
Labor is concentrated in the global economic periphery and semi periphery to take advantages of lower labor cost. -
New Centers of Industrial Activity
over the last 30 years of deindustrialization a process by whcih companies move industrial jobs to other regions leaving the newly deindustrialization region to work through a period of high unemployment. -
major influences on the contemporary geograpghy of manufacturing
As much as location is not just influenced by wages rates. The other key variables include transportation cost and options,regulatory constraints, expertise and access to energy. -
High Tecnology Clusters
A high tecnology corridor is an area designated by local or state governent to benefit from loer taxes and high tecnology infrastructure. An example will be the California's Silicon Valley of high tecnology corridor. -
Made in America or designed in ameria?
the news crew helped families move all goods not made in america onto the streets so that the family could visualize how much is in their home made from america.
