13 New economic geography
Learning objectives
After reading this chapter, you will be able to:
- LO1 Explain that pandemics spread through geographic space in uneven patterns.
- LO2 Identify the components of the model of new economic geography, focusing on the importance of transportation costs.
- LO3 Discuss themes of economic geography, including globalization, uneven development, and place.
- LO4 Analyze applications such as urbanization and pandemic shocks, spatial equilibrium and pandemic costs, and smart cities and pandemic resilience.
- LO5 Contrast factor-driven outcomes with network-driven contagion in the context of spatial diffusion.
- LO6 Identify appropriate responses to pandemic outcomes for urban and rural areas.
