info2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bloor Street, Distillery District, Gerardus Mercator
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What is geography: from, geo + of the world, graphia writing about, description about the earth, human geography, social science elements, people and place, physical geography, natural science elements, environment and process. Have a question on it watch the radio again: situation, the west wing (1999-2006) was a tv show about the president of the us. In this clip cj (allison janney), one of the president"s key advisors, receives a presentation from a lobby group called the organization of cartographers for. Key concepts in geography: space, location, place, site, situation. Space: most abstract of the concepts, absolute space, relative space, cognitive space, space can be seen as a container for human activity, space can also be seen as something that is perceived by individuals. Location: nominal, absolute, named location fixed mathematically, toronto: latitude: 43 37"n. Mental map: psychological representations of locations that are created from people"s individual ideas and impressions of these locations.
