... infrastructure is relatively new and therefore makes it difficult to compare the methods by which the economy was once structured to that of our current global economy. In the fifth chapter of Geographies of Global Change, Richard Wright intertwines Thrift's idea of "time-space compression" and its effects on the relative shrinking of distances between cities, with his example of how ... . Canada bases its economy around TNCs and makes the majority of its revenue through exporting goods across the globe. Technological advancements have reinvented its entire structure and it is now part ...

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