GGRB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peter Haggett, Geomatics, Prosthesis
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It is describing that our world is divided into geographical units. The world is organically divided into dif untist and national and global. Scale was used to describe the world, it often describes closed units. The diagram of many circles within one circle. Used by both human and physical geographers who assumed that the world is inherently hierarchically compartmentalized into global, national. Thought of scales as natural geographical units. Therefore scale can be used to describe a relatively closed system (lefebvre termed this approach use of scale envelope ) Kant argued that neither time nor space were objective, real things. Rather they are subjective constructs through which humans make sense of the world. For kant, order is the result not of categorization imposed on it by our brains (so no material basis) Building upon kant geographers put forth idealist notion of scale. Fraser hart articulated a kantian view of scales: they are subjective artistic devices ; mental fictions.
