Whether it is moving bananas from one geographic area to another, or people moving from India to the US, or the trucks on the road, there is a great deal of spatial interaction that we want to understand.
What is your biggest takeaway from the two materials on the displaced people, and internal migration in the US? Why is it important for the class to discuss it?
https://www.slate.com/articles/business/transport/2012/08/pallets_the_single_most_important_object_in_the_global_economy_.single.html
Nearly 60 million displaced people in the world read any of the story in this link, https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/story/refuge/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/story/refuge/
https://www.wired.com/2015/03/the-economic-impact-of-autonomous-vehicles/