• Week 1: Economic Geography (Geog.207) Revisited: Basic Concepts & Frameworks; Changing Roles of Distance & Location; Time Geography; Thinking Deductively about Location...
• Readings for Thursday: Charles C. Colby, "Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in Urban Geography," (Annals, AAG, March 1933{!}, pp. 1-20) [jstor]

CLASSICAL & NEOCLASSICAL EQUILIBRIUM PROPOSITIONS: DEDUCTIVE FOUNDATIONS OF LOCATIONAL THINKING

• General Resources
• Suggested Readings for Weeks 2, 3 and 4:
  • Hoover, Chs. 2&3(Supply); 6&7 (Land Use); and 4 (Demand)
  • The Four Traditions of (Neo-)Classical Location Theory

• Week 2:
  1. Review of the Locational Component of Geography 207 [Weeks 5 & 6]
  2. Micro-economic Equilibrium Tools and Principles
  3. Transfer Costs Functions and Geometrically Derived Locational Insights

     Readings:

     • Hoover, Ch. 2 ["Individual Location Decisions"]
     • Hoover, Ch.3 ["Transfer Costs"]

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BEYOND EQUILIBRIUM: EVOLUTIONARY THEORY & AGGLOMERATIVE PROCESSES

• Week 5: Adaptation, Time, & Evolutionary Processes

  Readings:

  • Shirley Terreberry The Evolution of Organizational Environments Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4. (Mar., 1968), pp.590-613. [read pp.591-5]
  • Nelson, Richard R., "Recent Evolutionary Theorizing About Economic Change," Journ. of Econ. Lit., 33(1), 1995, pp.48-90. [skim only]
  • Alchian, A.A. (1950), [ "Uncertainty, Evolution and Economic Theory", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 58. [read: pp.213-5]

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• Week 6: Localization and Dispersion: External Economies of Scale, Scope and Agglomeration. From Weber via Haig and Colby to Krugman's New Economic Geography and Castell's Informational City. Path Dependency, Industrial Districts, Inertia and "Sticky Places".

  Readings:

  • Hoover, Ch.5 [Location Patterns Dominated by Cohesion]
  • Edward M. Bergman and Edward J. Feser, Industrial and Regional Clusters: Concepts and Comparative Applications Ch.2: Basic Operational Concepts and Supporting Theoretical Frameworks [Part of Regional Science WebBook, 1999]
  • Optional: Allan Rodgers: "Industrial Inertia," Geog.Review 1952 [PDF/JSTORS]

DECISIONS, BEHAVIORS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES

General Resources
• Week 7: Uncertainty, Information and Adaptive Behavior
  [Readings & Resources for this week: See Week 7 Agenda!]
  • Peter Gould, "Man Against Environment: A Game Theoretic Framework," Annals (AAG), 1963. [particularly pp.291-294(top)]
  • Cohen, Michael D., James G. March, Johan P. Olsen A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1. (Mar., 1972), pp. 1-25.[JSTORS]

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• Week 8:
  • Organizations Learn, Transact & Organize Themselves in Space.
  • Space affects Organizational Decision-Making Structures and Transaction Costs in a Telecommunications Environment

    [Readings & Resources for this week: See Week 8 Agenda!]

Selected Organizational Facets in Locational Theorizing