Assignment Guide Chapter 8: Political Geography

Assignment Guide Chapter 9 Industry and Services

Major Themes: 1. What principles or considerations guide manufacturing locational decisions, and how those considerations have been selectively incorporated in different industrial location theories. 2. How other nontheoretical considerations including transnational ownership affect, distort, or reinforce classical locational controls. 3. The older world patterns of manufacturing regions, and how they have been affected by the special locational characteristics of high- tech industries. 4. What the identifying characteristics of tertiary, quaternary, and quinary service activities are and how their recent development impacted world economic patterns and international trade.

Tuesday, 3/3 Exam Review; Power of Place: Shanghai: Head of the Dragon, and Taiwan: High Tech Tiger

Wednesday, 3/4 DQs for pp. 272-277 1. Explain the growth of the “Princeton Corridor” in central New Jersey. 2. Account for the decline of the Fairfield County economy around Stamford, Connecticut in the early 1990s. 3. Identify the principle industries associated with “high-tech” economies. 4. Identify the factors that determine industrial location. 5. Examine the factors that are involved in production decisions. 6. Explain the concept of market equilibrium. 7. Discuss the ways in which demand influences locational decisions. 8. Examine the supply factors that determine locational decisions. 9. Discuss the concept of locational interdependence and agglomeration. 10. Examine the factors that determine whether an industry might locate close to a raw material source (material orientation) and provide some examples.

Thursday, 3/5 DQs for pp 277-282 11. Discuss the factors involved in locational decisions for automobile manufacture. 12. Discuss examples of ubiquitous industries. 13. Explain the decision of American railroad companies to eliminate 125,000 miles of railroad lines between 1930 and 2000. 14. Using the data in Figure 9.6, discuss the role of China in the global export market. 15. Assess the value of intermodal containerization in global economic activity. 16. Examine the factors that determine total transport costs for an item. 17. Why are production facilities rarely located midway between resources and markets? 18. Why does much production tend to take place at break-of-bulk points? 19. Compare and contrast the factors that influence industrial location decisions over the last century. 20. Analyze the five assumptions that underlie Weber’s Least Cost Theory of industrial location. 21. Explain the assumptions and consequences of Harold Hotelling’s locational interdependence theory. 22. Explain the concept of footloose as it relates to the computer industry.

Friday, 3/6 DQs for pp. 282-286 23. Examine the operational factors that influence location decisions in the post-Fordist production system. 24. Discuss the benefits of agglomeration (external) economies. 25. Examine the factors that might lead to deglomeration. 26. Assess the advantages and disadvantages of Fordist storage practices. 27. Explain the flexibility afforded by the Just-in-time manufacturing process. 28. Explain the concept of modular assembly. 29. Explain the concept of comparative advantage. 30. Assess the practice of outsourcing. 31. Outline the process of current automobile production. 32. Explain the concept of offshoring.

Monday, 3/9 DQs for pp. 286-292 33. Outline the noneconomic factors that influence locational decisions, even in market economies. 34. Read and prepare the Questions to Consider for “Contests and Bribery” on page 287. 35. Discuss the geographical distribution of Foreign Direct Investment. 36. Analyze the problems TNCs pose through FDI. 37. Account for the recent success of Newly Industrializing Countries in increasing their role in world manufacturing activity. 38. Explain the concept of an export processing zone. 39. Examine the origins of the Anglo-American manufacturing belt. 40. Examine the foundations of the southeast manufacturing economy.

1 Tuesday, 3/10 DQs for pp. 292-298. 41. Explain the emergence of London as a 19th century manufacturing center despite not having a natural resource base in coal. 42. Analyze the importance of the Ruhr region for German industry. 43. Explain the importance of the Donets basin for Eastern European manufacture. 44. Identify the four “Asian Tigers.” 45. Identify the six industrial regions of mainland China. 46. Account for the rapid rise of the industrial economies of South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. 47. Identify the newly emerging “Asian Tigers.” 48. Discuss the concept of high technology. 49. Explain the role of Gross Value Added in high technology economies. 50. Identify the major areas of high tech concentration in North America. 51. Examine the localizing forces that often determine the siting of high technology manufacturing. 52. Explain the concept of “foot-loose” as it pertains to high technology.

Wednesday, 3/11 DQs for pp. 298-301 53. Examine the factors that have altered the structure of the world economy in recent decades. 54. Using data from Table 9.1, compare and contrast the economies of Ireland and Malaysia. 55. Using the data in Figure 9.25, identify the countries in Africa where the service sector accounted for more than 60% of GDP. 56. Analyze the variety of tertiary sector activities. 57. Analyze the features that define the quaternary sector of the service economy. 58. Account for the spatial distribution of “back office” tasks. 59. Discuss the composition of the quinary sector.

Thursday, 3/12 DQs for pp. 301-304 60. Examine the factors that have contributed to the massive growth in service sector trade in recent decades. 61. Analyze the role of technology in contributing to the outsourcing of service sector activities to developing countries. 62. Analyze the significance of the data presented in Table 9.3. 63. Using the data in Figure 9.27, identify the seven most important centers of international finance. 64. Discuss the practice of offshore banking.

Friday, 3/13 Letter from Cambodia (In Class Reading) Monday, 3/16 Discussion of Letter from Cambodia Tuesday, 3/17 Essay Exchange Wednesday, 3/18 Exam Thursday, 3/19 Essay Exam 1. Discuss the locational tendencies that seem determinant in the distributional patterns of high-tech industries. 2. Analyze the role of “comparative advantage” in explaining current world trends in manufacturing and trade. 3. Account for current trends in manufacture and assembly in the automobile industry. 4. Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of different transportation media and indicate how those characteristics affect industrial location decisions. 5. Assess the practice of states and local governments using taxpayer moneys and preferential treatments to induce companies to locate there. 6. Examine the factors of labor and government that explain offshoring and outsourcing in the global economy.

2 Geography Items: East Asia

Countries Cities Physical Features China Beijing Altay Mountains Japan Dalian Amur River Mongolia Guangzhou Bohai Gulf North Korea Harbin Chang Jiang River South Korea Hong Kong SAR East Sea (Sea of Japan) Taiwan Kaohsiung Gobi Desert Kitakyushu Hainan Island Lanzhou Himalaya Mountains Lhasa Hokkaido Island Macau SAR Honshu Island Nagoya Huang He (Yellow) River Nanjing Junggar Basin Osaka Kyushu Island Pusan Liao River Pyongyang Loess Plateau Seoul North China Plain Shanghai Pearl River Estuary Shenzhen Seto Inland Sea Taipei Shandong Peninsula Tianjin Shikoku Island Tokyo Sichuan Basin Ürümqi Takla Makan Desert Xiamen Tian Shan Mountains Zhuhai Tibetan Plateau Yellow Sea Yunnan Plateau