GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Imprint, Cultural Landscape
5 Dec 2018
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Region: a part of the world that is different/ distinct from the rest; a part of the earth"s surface that displays internal homogeneity and is relatively distinct (different or heterogeneous) from surrounding areas according to some criteria/ criterion. Criteria: human geographic or physical geographic or a combination of both. Internal homogeneity (uniformity) vs. external heterogeneity (difference) i. e. areas with uniform temperatures etc. Regionalization: finding some ways to find some similarities in a place. The process where we simplify our complex world and its human and physical geographic patterns and processes into regions: locations on the earth"s surface are assigned/classified into various regions based on criteria/criterion. Spatial scale/perspective matters: what might be viewed as a region from on perspective might change depending on how we view it. At a large scale, smaller things are disregarded. As the scale increases or as we change our spatial perspective, the nature of what we identify as regions change.
