1. Adapted from Rubenstein Chapter 1 lecture

2. A “comical” depiction of economic globalization

4. Fig. 1-17: The Denso corporation is headquartered in Japan, but it has regional headquarters and other facilities in North America and Western Europe.

5. McDonald’s is an excellent example of both economic AND cultural diffusion http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2009/07/mcdonalds-menu-items- from-around-the-world-40-pics/ Let’s see what their menu looks like outside of the United States…

6.  An example of globalized culture & economy An example of globalized culture & economy

7.  Scale: From local to global › Globalization of economy › Globalization of culture  Space: Distribution of features › Distribution › Gender and ethnic diversity in space  Connections between places › Spatial interaction › Diffusion

8.  With partner: › Visually display the difference between arithmetic density and concentration using dots in boxes as seen below: High Density Low Density High Concentration Low Concentration

9.  Density- The frequency with which something occurs in a space  Concentration- The extent of a feature’s spread over space The first area is less dense than the 2 nd. 2 nd & 3 rd have same density, 3 rd has higher concentration

10.  Distribution: Arrangement of features in space › Arithmetic Density: total # of objects in an area › Physiological Density: # of persons per unit of arable land › Agricultural Density: # of farmers per unit of farmland › Pattern: Geometric arrangement of objects in space

11. Fig. 1-19: The changing distribution of North American baseball teams illustrates the differences between density and concentration.

12. Fig. 1-20: The times required to cross the Atlantic, or orbit the earth, illustrate how transport improvements have shrunk the world.  Globalization and modern devices shrink the amount of time it takes for ideas to travel from one place to another  More literally, human beings can travel across the globe at much faster speeds in the modern world.

13. Fig. 1-21: Continental Airlines, like many others, has configured its route network in a “hub and spoke” system.

14.  All originate at a hearth  Relocation Diffusion  Expansion Diffusion › Hierarchical › Contagious › Stimulus

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16. Fig. 1-22: New AIDS cases were concentrated in three nodes in 1981. They spread through the country in the 1980s, but declined in the original nodes in the late 1990s.

17. Sequoyah knew that whites wrote, and he had seen alphabetic letters. He was illiterate and did not know the phonemic principle on which alphabetic writing is based. He adapted letters— some borrowed and some invented—to a system whereby each Cherokee syllable was represented by a single sign. In appearance, his syllabary resembled the Latin alphabet. In principle, however, it resembled Japanese kana—to which, in all probability, he had never been exposed.  Cherokee syllabary, a writing system devised by a tribesman named Sequoyah (or John Guest ). http://www.neara.org/topics/diffuse.htm