Geography 1400F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Human Geography, Spatial Analysis
27 Jan 2019
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Globalization - a new set of processes, is the most important change currently affecting human geography. Broad conclusion: we are now able to talk intelligibly on a global scale as well as in local and regional term. Key factor for the changes in accord w/ larger global forces: humans" increasing ability to overcome the friction of distance. Results in: moving goods and ourselves from one place to another more rapidly, and ideas and capital can travel anywhere in the world. Increases: both the quantities of goods, information and people moving across national boundaries & the. The sense o place-to-place is vanishing; easier to receive info from the other parts of the world; local decisions affected by anger global circumstances. Emerge of global village, a global culture, creation of global landscapes connected by major shopping malls, fast food restaurant, airports, hotels. The local still matters: distance continues to play a central role in everyday life.
