GEOG 2RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Regional Geography
23 Apr 2017
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The characteristic of interest dominates from a central focus and diminishes importance outwards. Ex. reception areas of radio stations, circulation areas of newspapers. Other examples: church parish, shopping mall, delivery area of pizza place. Many of the traditional functional / nodal regions are disappearing via new technology: formal (uniform) An areas where everyone shares distinctive characteristic, ex. language, economic activity, climate, politics units. Formal regions are primarily used to understand the regional geography of the world. In some cases regions can be delineated based on one single geographic feature or characteristic. In other cases regions are delineated based on a number of different features or characteristics. Regions are areas/ territories that exhibit a certain degree of uniformity. A) internal homogeneity: within boundaries of the region, there is general uniformity. B) external heterogeneity: outside the boundaries of the region, things are generally different. However, where two regions meet we often have transitional zones rather than sharp precise boundaries.
