A region in the northeastern United States that once had an extensive manufacturing industry but has been deindustrialized during the post-Fordist era.
Location theory
Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von Thünen model is an example.
Global production networks
Pattern of flows from raw material to global product to disposal or reuse of products that shows all the places connected through production.
Least Cost Theory
Determining the location of manufacturing based on minimizing three critical expenses: labor, transportation, and agglomeration. Model developed by Alfred Weber.
Agglomeration
Cost advantages created when similar businesses cluster in the same location. For example, car manufacturers cluster in a city or region to tap into a skilled labor force and access infrastructure, services, and technology.
High-Technology Corridor
Areas along or near major transportation corridors that are devoted to the research, development, and sale of high-technology products.
Globalization
Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders.
Intermodal
Where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail, barge, and ship).
Hinterland
An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.
Secondary Hearths
Area to which an innovation diffuses and from which the innovation diffuses more broadly.
