Human Geography
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| Cottage industries | show 🗑
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| Economies of scale | show 🗑
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| Hinterland | show 🗑
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| show | A set of interconnected nodes without a center.
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| First Mover Advantage | show 🗑
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| show | Area to which an innovation diffuses and from which the innovation diffuses more broadly.
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| Globalization | show 🗑
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| show | Manufacturing system in which raw materials are brought into a central location and component parts and the final product are produced at the same location and then shipped globally.
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| show | The merging of businesses that serve different steps in one commodity chain.
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| show | 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.
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| show | 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.
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| show | Determining the location of manufacturing based on minimizing three critical expenses: labor, transportation, and agglomeration. Model developed by Alfred Weber.
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| Friction of distance | show 🗑
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| Intermodal | show 🗑
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| Capitalism | show 🗑
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| Commodification | show 🗑
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| show | The ability of corporations to employ labor from around the world, made possible by the compression of time and space through innovations in communication and transportation systems.
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| show | Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks.
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| Just-in-time delivery | show 🗑
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| Spatial fix | show 🗑
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| Node | show 🗑
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| show | Steps in the production of a good from its design and raw materials to its production, marketing, and distribution.
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| Outsourcing | show 🗑
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| show | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.
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| show | Tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods.
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| show | Pattern of flows from raw material to global product to disposal or reuse of products that shows all the places connected through production.
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| show | States with growing industrial and service economies and an increasing presence in global trade.
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| Break of Bulk Point | show 🗑
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| show | Decline in industry in a region or economy. Happens when companies move industry to other regions or mechanize production.
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| Rust Belt | show 🗑
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| High-Technology Corridor | show 🗑
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