No doubt, there are a number of other factors too that contribute to obesity, but television is a prime example of how technology and childhood obesity combine to the detriment of our health.
The Connection Between Technology And Childhood Obesity
Cities exist to make our communication and economic exchange easier.; The dense concentration of people and firms within cities lowers the cost of trading, as the market is easily accessible to the firm and vice versa, firms have access to an extensive labour market and workers can find employment.; People and firms locate in cities because it reduces their transport costs either to take goods to market or to travel in order to buy goods (Ioannides et al. 2007).; Cities that have been easier to transport goods to have often been the most successful, for example, many of the major cities in Europe are ports.; This concentration of factors necessary for trade can also be seen to occur within cities.; The monocentric model shows that cities tend to radiate out from a central point dominated by commerce, this is because the centre of the city is where access to the market is easiest and transport costs are lowest.; This can be shown using simple bid rent curves.; We assume that firms will bid more to locate in or close to the CBD than households.
How has this technological development, dramatically reducing; communication and transportation costs as well as leading to the development of new industries, affected employment location in cities?
Alternatively, the regional restructuring perspective puts the emphasis on firms’ decisions rather than worker’ residential preferences, it emphasises the importance of businesses following outsourcing strategies.; Firms selectively relocate employment to the urban periphery, cities further down the urban periphery or internationally.
The emergence of new factors which mean that some firms are more attracted to peripheries of cities means that the appearance of the firms bid rent curve will change.; Firms which have not been as affected by computer technology advances are likely to retain bid rent curves favouring centres but firms attracted to the periphery will have bid rent curves that have firms clustering at the centre as well as on the periphery.
Audirac, I. (2005) Information Technology and Urban Form: Challenges to Smart Growth.
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