GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Carpool, Virtual Campus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Brent Doberstein

Document Summary

Slide 1 space changes, cognition changes, interaction changes. Increase: e. g. marketing (drawing more businesses to a store) Slide 4 singapore erp (electronic road pricing congestion pricing) Making licensing more expensive, less cars, bill for cars, people try to avoid travelling during different hours, carpool. Slide 5 distance decay and friction of distance. Slide 6 reducing friction of distance: uw website. Attractive place (don"t show winter pictures, or geese on campus shit on tracks) Conclusion: a place where i"d like to spend in 4 years. Slide 7 why does spatial interaction occur? between places (supply/demand) 3 factors determining interaction and flow: complementarity, transferability, intervening opportunity. Complementarity: supply and demand, desire (racing), purchasing power and transportation. Intervening opportunity: nothing similar closer than blue mountain. Understanding movement bias allows more sophisticated movement predictions and control. Slide 12 spatial behaviour: place and territoriality. What would you miss if you spent a year abroad? (or, if you are abroad, what are you missing?)