GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Area Studies, Integrated Geography, Koch Snowflake
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Nature of geography: pattisons"s four traditions. Spatial- location geography: patters in location, space. Cognitive filtering: mental mechanism in which we process information and includes perception, memory, recall, language, decision making, action, learned behavior o. Only discerning features is its unique coordinates. Attributes are significant for specific time and place: situation. Sum total of a place and its context. Everything that goes into making a place a place (culture, politics: distance. Linear distance- km: time distance- hours (flexible, cognitive distance- eg. not far enough, cultural difference, social difference, distance decay. Iij= mimj dij2 i- distance 1 j- distance 2 interaction between 2 objects decline with distance: direction. Five types: cardinal (north, degrees, cultural (up, down, cognitive (younge street, relative ( it"s over there by the , social ( across the pond - going to britain) Mercator projection- straight lines are lines of constant compass bearing but they are not the great circle (shortest distance: area.
