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:

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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