Adapted from Rubenstein Chapter 1 lecture. A “comical” depiction of economic globalization.
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Adapted from Rubenstein Chapter 1 lecture
A “comical” depiction of economic globalization
Fig. 1-17: The Denso corporation is headquartered in Japan, but it has regional headquarters and other facilities in North America and Western Europe.
McDonald’s is an excellent example of both economic AND cultural diffusion
http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2009/07/mcdonalds-menu-items-from-around-the-world-40-pics/
Let’s see what their menu looks like outside of the United States…
An example of globalized culture & economy
Scale: From local to global› Globalization of economy› Globalization of culture
Space: Distribution of features› Distribution› Gender and ethnic diversity in space
Connections between places› Spatial interaction› Diffusion
With partner:› Visually display the difference between
arithmetic density and concentration using dots in boxes as seen below:
Hig
h D
ensi
tyLo
w D
ensi
tyH
igh C
oncentrationLow
Concentration
Density- The frequency with which something occurs in a space
Concentration- The extent of a feature’s spread over space
The first area is less dense than the 2nd.
2nd & 3rd have same
density, 3rd has higher
concentration
Distribution: Arrangement of features in space
› Arithmetic Density: total # of objects in an area
› Physiological Density: # of persons per unit of arable land
› Agricultural Density: # of farmers per unit of farmland
› Pattern: Geometric arrangement of objects in space
Fig. 1-19: The changing distribution of North American baseball teams illustrates the differences between density and concentration.
Fig. 1-20: The times required to cross the Atlantic, or orbit the earth, illustrate how transport improvements have shrunk the world.
Globalization and modern devices shrink the amount of time it takes for ideas to travel from one place to another
More literally, human beings can travel across the globe at much faster speeds in the modern world.
Fig. 1-21: Continental Airlines, like many others, has configured its route network in a “hub and spoke” system.
All originate at a hearth Relocation Diffusion Expansion Diffusion
› Hierarchical› Contagious› Stimulus
(click picture for link)
Fig. 1-22: New AIDS cases were concentrated in three nodes in 1981. They spread through the country in the 1980s, but declined in the original nodes in the late 1990s.
Cherokee syllabary, a
writing system devised by a
tribesman named Sequoyah (or John Guest).
http://www.neara.org/topics/diffuse.htm