GEO 106 Chapter Notes -Praxis (Process), Social Distance, Public Space
5 Jun 2013
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Systematic geography it attempts to describe, explain, predict and prescribe what goes on in the world, especially the world as it affects humans and the way humans affect the world. Geography is as much defined by its approach to study as it is by what is studies humans and environments. One way to consider the approaches used by geographers is to look at what are called. Pattison"s (1964) four traditions: the spatial tradition concern is with the nature of location, space, place, distance, direction and orientation of humans the environments in which they have to function. Geographers are concerned with the geometry of things, their arrangement, movement between them, and why these arrangements and movements arise. The principal goal is to explain general patterns of human settlement and behaviour: area studies tradition concern is with differentiating regions of places based on given sets of attributes. How does one place differ form another in terms of its culture, demographics, economics, etc.
