COVID-19 is influencing how people engage with one another in geographic space. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing have reduced people’s bodily presences and social interactions in public spaces. Revisiting classical behavioral geography, this commentary explores the perception and engagement of geographic space among residents in the downtown core of a large metropolitan region in Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic.
La teoría de convergencia, derivada de la teoría neoclásica de crecimiento, sugiere que las diferencias regionales de salario disminuirán con el tiempo. Estudiada en una variedad de marcos, hay evidencia de que la convergencia ocurre, aunque condicionada por la capacidad económica regional y su participación en la más amplia economía neoclásica. Dentro de los Estados Unidos, la evidencia de convergencia está presente a niveles nacionales y subnacionales. De interés particular en este proceso es la Appalachia, una región que ha tomado un papel periférico al de la amplia economía neoclásica y que no está sujeta a la convergencia. Recientes investigaciones sugieren la posibilidad de convergencia y movimiento hacia un proceso de crecimiento neoclásico, aunque la evidencia es indirecta y ambivalente. Este trabajo examina la convergencia en Appalachia y la influencia de factores de crecimiento tanto neoclásicos como específicos a esa región. Los resultados indican la convergencia y un movimiento de la economía de Appalachia que se aleja de una estructura centro-periferia hacia un proceso más neoclásico impulsado en gran medida por la estructura industrial y el capital humano.
For a number of decades, Appalachia has been a region that has lacked the growth and development that neighboring regions have experienced. Interestingly, in the past thirty years, as investment relocated during the Rust Belt-Sun Belt Transition, evidence of Appalachian integration into the national economy has begun to emerge. This inclusion, however, is generally confined to Northern and Southern Appalachia, and is not fully understood. To explore the nature of this integration, this paper uses geographic visualization and a two-way ANOVA on capital, labor, and technology measures. Results indicate that Appalachian counties continued to lag in these neoclassical factors of growth when compared to non-Appalachian, Rust Belt, or Sun Belt counties, though the Appalachian lag effect lessened over time.
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