How did Detroit Become the Motor City? | Industrial Geography | Crash Course Geography #48

From shipping routes to airplane traffic to even the Internet, transportation planning is all about designing optimal transportation networks to move goods, information, and people around the globe. Today, we're going to discuss industrial geography by tracing the story of the automotive landscape as it formed across the manufacturing belt of the Upper Midwest of the United States, and show how it wasn't just a coincidence that it overlapped with transportation routes and access to raw materials like coal and iron. We'll show you how Least Cost Theory has been used to explain the location of certain industries and how it no longer seems to be holding due to the rise of globalization.
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[@leonhostnik9516]

An important quick mention about supply chain affecting just in time production: the original model in Japan included evaluating the supply chains for parts sensitive to interruptions, and strategically stocking them to prevent a single point of failure. The American model overall has generally neglected or poorly assessed which parts to stock in strategic reserves, though

[@simonsaysism]

There's a lot of overlap here with my profession, industrial engineering, but since I apply those skills on a company-level scope, I never really considered the macro effects of this type of logistics planning! There should be a bigger focus on that angle in engineering education.

[@lesussie2237]

since globalization caused by free trade and better infrastructure has reduced the cost of distance, then transportation costs and decisions are more based on trade laws and infrastructure quality, rather than the geographic space and item being moved. is there a way do visualize this, like a map that scales distances by the time or cost to transport goods? this part really interested me because in Indonesia, it is cheaper to have goods imported all the way from Europe than to send them across neighboring islands

[@ahmednadim5859]

The cost of sending goods from Europe to Indonesia is probably low partially due to massive economies of scale which shipping particularly benefits from. There's probably not as many people in the individual islands in Indonesia for the economies of scale to kick in.

[@niko-ni6ps]

Ey indo bros, Anw, thats an interesting insight. I think, indonesia will import more and more to develop the economy first. After that, development of infrastructure began to reduce the cost of transportation. Finally indonesia could stop the reliance on import

[@michaelgudzy3450]

Could shipping routes be a part? If Indonesia is exporting raw material to Europe, it makes economic sense to fill up those cargo ships with something for the return trip.

[@jpdillon2832]

Ah, the beginning of the modern dilemmas

[@lucasstein7237]

Reading Harvey in a 3rd year university class and those 30 seconds taught me more than the 3 hour lecture

[@meejinhuang]

Mostly because Henry Ford was working in Dearborn when he started building cars. Henry Ford made Detroit the Motor City.

[@dhindaravrel8712]

Horrifying, and most people aren't even at the stage of realisation when it comes to car addiction.

[@trinkab]

"Detroit" (my Michigan ears perk up)

[@Benni777]

As someone from the D, thank u for educating us! ✌🏻

[@RipperX415]

Very helpful 🙂👍

[@HerseyChris]

Would be more interested in "how did Detroit (and Baltimore) become the hollowed-out shell of a thriving metropolis that they've become"-Video

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

This video answers that question

[@Mo-nj2hp]

Love it! Thank you so much

[@christiandauz3742]

I wondered if Detroit would have still became the Motor City had Industrialization started 200 years earlier

[@Mr.Beauregarde]

The Great Lakes and the Rocky Mountains make that a safe ish bet. Leastways somewhere nearby. However, if rail could paradoxically predate steel it'd be more likely to be closer to Cleveland or more likely Louisville.

[@lesussie2237]

wouldnt outsourcing still cause the industry to move away like in the rust belt?

[@TheDanEdwards]

Detroit wouldn't be, at least as we know it. The land would be there but it would be some other social organization. Industrialization started in the 18th century. If industrialization started in the 16th likely the world would be so different you would not recognize it.

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Thanks for the section information...

[@annuelpuns]

For a second there I read that title as "How did Detroit become human" lol.

[@whymedk]

Weird to see an old map of copenhagen floating behind David Harvey :D

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[@DougOfTheAntarctic]

I was waiting for a tie-in to the pink grapefruit on her shirt, but it never arrived...

[@daisuke910]

When will Detroit become Human?

[@AndrewOnYoutube]

A B C Detroit

[@jmsl910]

very good A+

[@dnisey64]

Thank you

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Thank you!

[@AlecMuller]

9:56, way to go Taiwan!

[@maykrupskaya4967]

So basicly capitalists would use slaves if they could. anyone else think these shouldn't be the people in charge of the economy

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Supply shortage

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[@jones4663]

Second It's already 3:14 am here in my country

[@crystalward1444]

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will have Mars built up like a huge labour city, with underground agricultural greenhouses, while shipping goods back to Earth for those population capped and "deemed" deserving enough to remain here.

[@harm3825]

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[@Songul76]

Hi

[@hassssium]

First

[@bandiras2]

And how did it become a failed city?

[@lesussie2237]

which one? the rust belt cities?

[@bandiras2]

And how did it become a failed city? 50+ years of continuous speshul politics.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"50+ years of continuous speshul politics" - what are you trying to signal here?