GEO 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Urban Planning, Shap, Human Geography
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Interdependence as a two-way process: why geography matters, geography and exploration, geography in a globalizing world. Interdependence in a globalizing world: geography in canada. 1930s to present: a geography truly our own: geographers at work. Chapter 1: main points: geography matters because specific places provide the settings for people"s daily lives. It is in these settings that important events happen, and it is from them that significant changes spread and diffuse. Places and regions are highly interdependent, each filling specialized roles in complex and ever-changing networks of interaction and change. Some of the most important aspects of the interdependence between geographical scales are provided by the relationships between the global and the local. Human geography provides ways of understanding places, regions, and spatial relationships as the products of a series of interrelated forces that stem from nature, culture, and individual human action.