Geography 2143A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Foreign Direct Investment, Gross Domestic Product, Enabling Technology
9 Nov 2016
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Economic relationship between places that are generalized under the term spatial interactions. Software for americans are written by indians and transmitted to silicon. Valley by satellites: people are relying a lot on technology and the gap of locations are closing in. Newspapers are mostly news that are domestic: geography matters because news vary depending on your location in the world. For easy access to the business, multinational corporations are position their business in a small region: to make it easy for competition, they are all located in a small region, ex. Silicon valley in california, futures trading in chicago, insurance in. Hartford, connecticut, movies in los angeles, and currency trading in. Where you are depends where you started from. Once something is located somewhere it will be there for a long time: ex. It is hard to move a plant once it is built. Change happens in the surface but changes slowly.
