GG102 Lecture Notes - Language Death, Digitizing, Urban Land
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Fascination doesn t always mean that you are concerned with understanding. Geographers look at that and then ask why. Examining and explaining the spatial distribution of human features and activities, and impacts on the environment. (and people individually) Often limit the studies to a certain extent: within certain places, regions, globally. What is where, why there, and why care charles grizner. Hits on all three aspects of geography. Tools: forecasting models, simulation (attempt too say this is going to happen in the future) Cognitive images representing a persons perceptions, feelings, memories, meanings and knowledge of a location. What you see in your mind s eye when you think of a place/area. A tool for representing a persons mm. Sketch me a map of your neighbourhood . Tend to look like traditional maps and be: Too focused on nodes, routes & landmarks. Replay how you drew it, what came first and what came next. Ask people to think aloud during experiments.
