GEOG 3LT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Spacetime
8 Oct 2016
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Time-geography (hagerstrand, 1970: hagerstrand swedish geographer, general and applicable to different problems, evidence of the power of geography, personal mobility and accessibility, generalizable. Personal indivisibility: personally cannot be in more than one location at the same time, you can only be in one place at a given time. Spatially dispersed activities leads to the idea of a spatial anchors: idea that an individual must be present at a certain time, spatial anchors examples being in a required course. Leads to the idea of fixed commitments temporal anchors: fixes you in a certain space and time, ex. Speed of travel: given existing technologies we do not have lapses cannot teleport. Time travelling = can"t do something else: within fixed budget of 24 hours, every single activity is competing for a part of that time. Next location is school not until 12:30.
