The Role of Place Based Organizations in Cultivating Economic Development

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In addition to social networks, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Detroit residents to find basic networks for goods and services. As previously mentioned, Detroit is a geographically large city. Developments and introduction of business in one neighborhood, does not directly benefit all residents. Sheila Cockrel has noticed that more and more businesses such as convenience stores, cleaners, and pharmacies are being built in attempts to make neighborhoods more walkable. This helps residents who otherwise would have to go to the suburbs for such basic needs as food and water; a difficult task seeing as many neighborhoods lack a reliable transportation system. Many of the organizations we talked with share a common goal of trying to

Moretti states that the economic map follows the three America theory that divides the United States into three different classes. He uses this theory to explain why these disparities occur between regions and their divisional factors. On the one hand, high wages for a skilled and unskilled labor force, on other low levels and declining markets and between the two, undecided cities. In other words, innovative cities, traditional manufacturing regions and in between the towns that can go anyways. What we can observe is that places where highly specialized innovation is predominant, for example where the engineers and designers are, clusters generate for each job created an additional five jobs outside the high technology industry. We can attribute this reason to the dense cluster phenomenon which the multiplier effect of high-tech companies when they are located near each other. The result of creating additional local service jobs increase significantly because people with a high average of wages tend to spend part of their salary on wealthy service. Moretti refers this type of employment as the non-traded sector, to exemplify, it is jobs that only be performed by the local workforce. On the opposite direction, the manufacturing industry

When people think of their environment people think of their immediate surroundings; however, one's environment goes beyond and further into the psychological connection to one's personal environment. To further explain, Gallagher discusses three different aspects of The Power of Place: Outside In, Inside Out, and Synchrony. The book opens doors previously unnoticed about psychological ecology. From reading the book one learns that settings influence behavior more than the personalities of most people.

Assess the degree to which inequalities within one named region or city result from economic factors: (30 marks)

This unit discusses the region of Madrid, Spain. During this first week, the topic of Madrid’s location and culture will be the main focus and how it affects these impacts the region’s economy. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, economy is defined as the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region. Economic impact is the result of the effect on the level of economic activity in a given area. This includes business output or sales volume; value added or gross regional product; wealth (including property values); personal income; and jobs.

1- Pine Street Inn is a nonprofit organization founded in1969 and is a national leader in the fight to end homelessness. Currently, Pine Street serves more than 1,600 homeless men and women daily and nearly 9,000 annually. In order to fulfill the organization’s mission Pine Street Inn has embarked in strategic planning to decrease emergency shelter beds and expand housing shifting the current housing-to-shelter ratio of 50:50 to 65:35. Pine Street Inn is composed of full- and part-time employees whose work carries out the mission of ending homelessness through diverse programs and job functions.

Over the last three decades several United States auto jobs have migrated to the South. Some of the things that have attracted these auto giants to these Southern States is the cost of living and operating advantages which far surpass those of their Northern counterparts, which also attract more white-collar workers. The Volvo plant is no different, their goal for building in South Carolina is an attempt to re-focus it US market share, which had long diminished. Although having these auto giants, such as Volvo come in to these small rural towns to encourage growth and development, what effect does it really have in the community?

Located in the heart of Illinois, in the great Midwest, Decatur is well positioned geographically as a manufacturing, distribution, and logistics center. Decatur’s economy is largely manufacturing driven, with cutting edge businesses such as Tate & Lyle, the Archer Daniels Midland company, and Caterpillar, Inc. Both of Decatur’s hospitals, St. Mary’s Hospital and Decatur Memorial Hospital, continue to be an important contributor in the economic profile of the city. The educational element is depicted, with the presence of Millikin University and Richland Community College. Together, these three factors are what make up most of Decatur’s economy.

Role of Anchor Institutions Anchor institutions include hospitals, universities, arts and culture institutions and sports venues. America’s cities run on these types of institutions. Most of the anchor institutions remain economically strong, even as cities fight job loss. Every anchor institution has planned something to improve the economy of the neighborhoods.

The money the University receives annually, coupled with the local entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on the natural resources of the State, strides in the development technology

Place-Based education has been valuable throughout in schools and developing children education. The goal of place education is to serve as a learning organization for program developers, fueling internal growth and program development for the individual organizations. Nonetheless develop an identity, disseminate evaluation techniques, tools and approaches that can be applied elsewhere; and contribute to the research base underlying the field of place-based education and school change (peecworks.org). It has focused on using the local community as an integrating context for learning. This allows students to explore the world around them. Students will gain experience in the real world and face different issues that might not be taught in the schools. Moreover, learning the culture that students live in can give a history to how their area grew into what it is today. One of the key factors that can be used to be help elementary, middle and high school in the Sewanee area is The Annenberg Rural Challenge.

The article does an excellent job in implications of the interconnections between people and locations, two important aspects within human geography. For example, the global use of landmines would be an example of spatial diffusion (Knox, 2013, p. 23). Landmines are explosive weapons that indiscriminately target civilian and combatants. Their cheap costs and high effectiveness against humans saw such weapons employed in many military conflicts across the globe. Non-governmental organizations also represent the correlation between people and places as NGOs by their mission objectives and physical work, are carried across numerous places around the world. More famous NGOs would be like the World Health Organization or the Red Cross, famed for

In today’s world people, places, societies and environments are constantly changing. Both natural and human created events, shape the world and create strong relationships between the environment and society. Human geography and development studies are two fields seeking to analyse these interrelationships and answer key questions about major issues in the world such as poverty, inequality and conflict. Human geography is largely about studying the spatial aspects of relationships between people and society whereas development studies focusses more on the way societies function, focussing on issues such as poverty and inequality as well as the way in which ‘developing’ nations function compared to ‘developed’ nations. Through examples of poverty and inequality this essay will explain the ways in which development studies and human geography overlap and the ways in which they are different in their analyses.

The Department of Homeland Security released the 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review on June 18, 2014 as required by the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and its amendments. This review outlined the current state of preparedness, as well as the future areas of concentration. It also determined six strategic challenges facing the nation: terrorist threat; growing cyber threats; biological concerns as a whole; nuclear terrorism; transnational criminal organizations; and natural hazards. The basic building block of emergency management in the U.S. is the local community. Each step begins here. Threat assessments are completed on the local level. Planning, mitigation, and response are all responsibilities of the local community to support the state and Federal practice using the guidance provided by both.