GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Staple Food, Distance Decay, Blood Orange
15 May 2016
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Time-space compression: a concept used by geographers: we need to think differently about how places across the globe are connected to each other. Examples: sending an email(no more friction of distance), transportation, communication. The idea is that we are overcoming the friction of distance. These are all important to shape the pattern of economic globalization. Not the only key factor but an important one. Cities that are far apart in terms of number of km may be close or accessible given the amount of cable that links them or airplanes that fly to and from them. The red orange graph is a distance decay graph; things are uneven. Canada pre 19th century: canada underdeveloped, only exports primary staple food to core european countries. Mid 19th century: exports are now shifting, more and more staples moving south to the border with us.
