GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Regional Geography, Integrated Geography, Oatmeal
24 May 2014
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Spatical concepts and spatial dynamics: the nature of geography . Spatial interaction, area differentiation, spatial organization: cultural relativity and cognitive filtering. The concept of truth is relative: the research praxis, space, location, place, site ,situation, attributes of space: distance, direction, area. An individual needs to be numerate and articulate (qualitative) and very descriptive in your analysis. For instance, if i have to travel from here to where, how long and what the distance in between: pattison"s four traditions(1964): Asthenosphere weak layer: area studies- regional geography. The study of a region"s characteristic and attributes. How humans change and are changed by their environment. Ellen churchill sample- moon is the product of the earth. Environmental determinism- environment controls our condition, the type of occupation we engaged in. Possibilism devoted by vidal de la blache - the ability to transform the environment, environemt influences our action and thinking: spatial-location geography. The analysis of general patterns in location, space, place, distance, direction and orientation.
