Geography 1400F/G Lecture 2: human geography

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 1400F/G
• Professor: Jeff Hopkins

Document Summary

Human geography studies the complex interplay btw humans & the places & landscapes they create. The human world is the ever-changing product of the activities of human beings to modify the pre- existing physical conditions of the earth (i. e. individuals and groups, govn"t, business) Human geographers often focus on the evolution of the human world w/ reference to people. their cultures, & physical env. We are interested in the env. both for what it is and for what its transformation into cultural landscapes means abt. us e. g. changing attributes of place. "environments sustain us; landscapes reveal us" (i. e. "material" space) (i. e. "im-material" space: regionalization. Human geographers often divide large areas into smaller areas that exhibit a degree of unity: region. An area of the earth"s surface of varying size & scale whose diverse elements share similarity. Scale ranges from global to local: three types of "regions" Formal or uniformal: one or more similar combo of physical.