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Peer reviewedWheeler, James O. – Journal of Geography, 1988
Presents an exercise, for use in college-level economic geography courses, which teaches the concept of nodal and network accessibility with an application to manufacturing locations. Intended to guide students to think spatially and to generalize from numeric data, this out-of-class activity teaches students to discover results, to do simple…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Economics, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location
Peer reviewedWheeler, James O. – Journal of Geography, 1998
Chronicles the geographic and historical locational changes of the textile industry of the U.S. South. Economics of scope, flexible production, and quality of output characterize the contemporary textile industry. Provides basic geographic content enabling a teacher to develop a unit by applying geography to interpret the past and present. (CMK)
Descriptors: Employment, Geographic Location, Geography Instruction, Higher Education
