Reading:

• Rubenstein Chapter 11: Industry and Manufacturing [Key Issues 1-4]

• Rubenstein Chapter 12: Services and Settlements [Key Issues 1-4]

 

Outcomes

A. Origins and spread of industrialization

1. Changing roles of energy and technology

2. Industrial Revolution

3. Evolution of economic cores and peripheries

4. Geographic critiques of models of economic localization (ie. bid rent, comparative costs of transportation) industrial location, economic development and world systems

B. Contemporary patterns and impacts of industrialization/development

1. Organization of the world economy

2. Variations in levels of development

3. Deindustrialization/economic restructuring

4. Globalization/transnationals/outsourcing

5. Sustainable development

6. Environmental concerns

7. Government policies/local development initiatives

8. Women-owned business

C. Thinking Geographically