GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pink-Collar Worker, Blue-Collar Worker, Comparative Advantage
20 Oct 2017
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Defining spatial interaction involve the movement of goods, people, materials, and other tangible commodities, between the different nodes of the city along transportation channels. Delivery trucks or trains taking raw materials or finished products to factories or stores along roads or railway. Commuters going to and from work using roads or subways. Blue collar, white collars, green collar, pink collar. Migration of people (and their things and their cultures) from outside your city or country to inside your city or neighbourhood. Refers to the transmission of more intangible commodities such as information between nodes in the city along sometimes less visible transmission channels. Flow of electricity, telecommunications, and the internet either along telephone wires or thorugh wireless transmission mediums. Flow of ideas that occurs within a classroom or opinions thorugh the pages of a newspaper. As you interact with other people, this may include diffusion of ideas or new technologies. Flows of money or thought" goods through the internet.
