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GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2008
Lecture Outline

Geography
Matters!

Industrialization and Deindustrialization

How do Places Develop and Underdevelop?

Rostow's Stages of Growth
Critiques of Rostow

Industrialization

Deindustrialization

    • Backwash effects
    • Agglomeration diseconomies
    • Shifts in Technology and Methods of Production

Creative Destruction and the See-Saw Motion of capital

How do Maquiladoras Fit In?

 

Landscapes of Economic Growth and Decline in the Sioux Empire and Flint Michigan

Economic Growth in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Cows, Computers and Corporate Headquarters in North Sioux City, South Dakota

Economic Decline in Sioux City, Iowa

The Painful Effects of Deindustrialization in Flint, Michigan

 

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