Chapter 12 Flashcards
A location where large shipments of goods are broken up into smaller containers for deliveries to local markets
Breaking-bulk point
To come together in a mass, sum, or whole
Aggregation
The dispersal of an industry that formerly existed in an established agglomeration
Deglomeration
Loss of industrial activity in a region
Deindustrialization
A proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production
Economies of scale
Areas where governments create favorable investment and trading conditions to attract export-oriented industries
Export-processing zones
System of standardized mass production attributed to henry ford
Fordism
A measure of how much absolute distance affects the interactions between two places
Friction of distance
The theory that the economic development, or growth, is not uniform over an entire region, but instead takes place around a specific pole (cluster)
Growth pole
The rapid economic changes that occurred in agriculture and manufacturing in England in the late 18th century and that rapidly spread to other parts of the developed world
Industrial revolution
Where routes connect
Intermodal connections
Organizations owned or control production of goods or services in one or more countries than the home country
Multinational corporations
Areas that have been specifically designed to promote businesses transactions, and thus become centers for banking and finance
Offshore
Sending industrial processes out for external production, applies to traditional industrial functions, and to the contracting of service industry functions to companies to overseas locations, where operating costs remain relatively low
Outsource
An input cost in manufacturing that remains constant whenever production is located
Spatial fixed
