Technology and Economic Geography
Assignment for Today
Read Coe pp. 119-136 Come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts and ideas:  end of geography thesis, placeless production, technology as social process, time-space compression, Kondratriev waves, space-shrinking technologies, offshoring, production process technologies, Fordism, after-Fordist, flexible production, just-in-time systems, branch plants

Myth of The End of Geography and Placeless Production

Does Telecommunication Substitute for Transportation?

  • E-bay and Facebook Examples
  • Does Communication Substitute, Complent, or Enhance Transport?

Technological Determinism

Space-Shrinking Technologies

  • Transport and Communication
  • Time-Space Compression
  • The annihilation of space-by time.
  • Time-space convergence
  • Cost-space convergence

Space-Shrinking Technologies and Geographical Change

Production Process Technology and Geographical Change

  • Techniques of Production
  • Scales of Production
  • Location of Production

Technologies and Types of Production Systems

  • Fordism
  • Flexibly specialized Craft Production
  • Flexible Production
    • Just-in-time
  • Evolutionary Perspective on Technological Change
    Kondratiev Waves

 

Assignment for next time: Read Coe pp. 136-152 and come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts and ideas: agglomeration economies, urbanization economies, localization economies, traded interdependencies, vertical disintegration, untraded interdependencies, tacit knowledge, codified knowledge, the creative class, types of agglomerations, global cities, institutional proximity, cultural proximity, organizational proximity, relational proximity, project working.

 

 

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