Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Environmental Law, Imagined Community, 24 Sussex Drive
25 Apr 2017
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Core vs periphery: core implies its in the middle, not always true, just about where the urbanization is. The heartland-hinterland system model provides a framework for examining, at various geographic scales, the movement of people, goods and services, investment capital, and technology from one region to another. Geographical model, looking at things as they move over space. Small land area: cannot take up big space, south central on great lakes lowlands. Corporate control: headquarters of people who make decisions in private sector. Industrial core: away from agriculture urbanization. Good physical qualities: competitive geographical advantages flat land, decent climate, transportation (rivers, lakes, then roads, airports), location as starting block. Access to markets: not selling just to ourselves. Well integrated system of cities: one big urbanized area of different cities, all systems are integrated as well. Capacity for innovation and change: money for research, development, education, feeds innovation and change.
