Industrial Geography Economic Geography Geography of Development
A. Growth and diffusion of industrialization
- The changing roles of energy and technology
- Industrial Revolution
- Evolution of economic cores and peripheries
- Geographic critiques of models of economic localization (i.e., bid rent, comparative costs of transportation), industrial location, economic development, and world systems
B. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization and development
- Spatial organization of the world economy
- Variations in levels of development
- Deindustrialization and economic restructuring
- Globalization and international division of labor
- Natural resources and environmental concerns
- Sustainable development
- Local development initiatives: government policies
- Women in development
Favorite Specific Resources for this Unit:
- TED Talk: The Economics of Sustainability
- The Economist: The Third Industrial Revolution
- Ted-Ed video: How Containerization Shaped Globalization
- World Bank’s Global Development: Interactive mapping tool
- NPR article: What America Manufactures
- YouTube: How China Manufactures so cheaply
- The Economist: The End of Cheap China
- Foreign Policy: Africa’s Economic Growth
- NPR Podcast: India’s uneven development–too many cell phone, too few toilets
- U.S. AID infographic: Learning out of Poverty
- Video on Development in India: Bridging the Digital Divide
- Hans Rosling video: Visualizing Development Data
- Comparing Development Stats: If It were my Home
- Interactive Map: Geography of a Recession
