318 North American Planning
Firm Location Where to Put Your Plant by Richard Wood
Dear Students,
Here is some assistance as you prepare
(cooperatively) a class presentation that reflects and synthesizes
the position of Wood in the paper:
Firm Location Where to Put Your Plant.
Try to incorporate a presentation that includes the concept of basic and non basic urban activity below, remember to tie these ideas to local industrial production
Propellant Questions
1. What constitutes the components
of location theory to author
2. Why are "diemakers" coddled.
3. What indications does the article give that shows multi-national
shifts in location for labour inputs.
4. How does this article parallel with the video on New York.....We'll
discuss this in class next time when we meet.
Outcomes
What are the characteristics
of La Grande or Union County industrial development?
What basic industries exist in La Grande area?
How do these industries contribute the multiplier effect? (Employees)
How does the locational theory, presented in the article, connect
with strategies
exhibited in these industries.
What are Basic Industries?
What are Non
Basic Industries?
An example of a presentation on Basic and Non Basic issues
Community Economic Analysis U of K
Reno! Nevada Development Authority
Calling All Business Florence Oregon
Union County
Economic Development Council
Union County Economic Development
Corporation