GEO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mexican Cuisine, Blues, Time Geography
14 Feb 2017
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Tobler"s first law of geography: everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. Four primary types of diffusion: relocation diffusion. People move to a different area and bring their culture"s ideas with them. Ideas do not necessarily affect those in the new area: expansion diffusion. People move to a different area and bring their culture"s ideas with them and their culture"s ideas spread to the people in this new area. The key distinction between relocation and expansion diffusion is: contagious diffusion whether the number of adopters is expanding. Places near the origin or origins are affected first. The farther one is from the point of origin, the later they will be affected: hierarchical diffusion. Larger places have greater potential for interaction. The people in larger cities tend to be more diverse, wealthier, and more accustomed to change. Phenomena spreads first to major cities, then to intermediate-sized places,
