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The opportunity for contact between two locations. A function of economic, cultral, and social factors.
- Cities that operate as airline hubs are more accesible than those w/ fewer flights.
- A farther fast food restaurant is more accesible than an expensive closer restaurant.
- A day-care center located a few blocks from a single-parent family is not accessible if it opens late or if the staff, children and other parents are from an incompatible socio-cultural group.
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The economic and social system for making money and controlling the means of production, distribution, and trade by private businesses. Rarely pure forms of capitalism.
- in US
- in Ireland
- in Brazil
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| The distance that people perceive to exist in a given situation. Distance in the eye of the beholder. |
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Mental maps, a person's mind's representation of a location based on individual ideas & impressions if the location.[image]
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the space defined & measured in terms of people's values, feelings, beliefs, & perception about locations, districts, and regions.
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the rate at which a particular activity or phenomenon diminishs with increasing distance.
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| cost advantages to manufacturers that accrue from high-volume production which decreases cost of production. |
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groups with high degree of similarity based on ditinguishing feature[image]
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| the inhibiting effect of distance on human activity including time &cost of overcomng distance. |
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| regions within which there is an overall coherence to the strructure and dynamics of economics, political and social organization while there may be some variability in certain attributes(religious adherence and income). |
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use of demographic information for marketing to population from which information was gathered.
-Facebook
-census
-Big corporations come to lil towns |
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| Capacity of understanding patterns, processes, and relationships among people, places, and regions. |
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| Geographic information systems(GIS) |
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| Technology designed to capture, store, update, manipulate, and display geographically refenced information. |
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| Global Positioning System(GPS) |
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| 21 satellites and 3 spares that orbit the earrth on predictable paths, broadcasting acurrate time and locational info. |
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The increasing interconnectedness of differnt paths of through world through economic, environmental, political and cultural change.
Phones
China business in U.S.
Airplanes |
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| The focus on the natural and physical environments as they influence, and are influenced by, human activity. |
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| A person's sense of self defined through feelings based on their daily experiences and social interactions. |
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The support structure and amenities(any feature that provides comfort, convenience, or pleasure) for productivity.
canals
roads
buses
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| shared meaning that results from routine encounters and shared experiences. |
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| when the government of a country claims a minority living outside its formal border, historically and culturallly. |
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The angular distance of a point on the Earth's surface, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds north or south of the equator
90 N-90 S PARALLELS |
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| The pattern and context which people conduct their daily lives unconsciously. |
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| he angular distance of a point on the Earth's surface, measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds east or west from the prime meridian(0- lines that pass thru both poles and Greenwich, England) -180. CALLED MAERIDIANS |
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| the economic policies which promote open markets and free trade believing it to be the ideal condition for economic organization, and political and social life. |
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| vernacular landscapes. Everyday landscapes that people create in the course of their lives. |
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| A subarea that studies the Earth's natural processes and their outcomes. It is concerned with climate, weather patterns, landforms, soil formation, and plant and animal ecology. |
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| a specific geographic setting with distinctive physical, social, annd cultural attributes. |
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| larger-sized territory that encompasses many places, all or most of which share similar attributes in comparison with the attributes of places elsewhere. |
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| the study of the way that unique combinations of environmental and human factors produce territories with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes. |
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| A feeling of collective identity based on a population's distinctive identities which coexist within the same state boundaries. |
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| the classification of individual places or areal units. |
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| the collection of information about parts of Earth's surface by means of aerial photgraphy or satellite imagery designed to record data on visible, infrared, and microwave sensor systems. |
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| contemporary society in which politics is increasingly about avoiding hazards. |
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| extreme devotion to local interests and customs. |
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| feelings evoked among people as a result of experiences and meories that they associate with a place, and the symbolism that they attach to it. |
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the physical attributes of a location.
terrain
soil
vegetation
water sources |
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| the location of a place relative to other places and human activities. |
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| patterns of interaction among family members, at work, in social life, in leisure actibities, and in political activity. |
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The study of many eographic phenomena can be approached in terms of their arrangment as points. lines. areas. or surfaces on a maps.
Concepts:
- Location- latitude v. longititude
- Distance- relative absolute cognitive distance
- Space- relative absolute cognitive
- Accessibility- function of economic, cultural, and social factors
- Spatial Interaction- mvmt and flows involving human activity
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| the way that things spread through space and over time. |
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| the movement and flows involving human activity. |
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| indepedent political units with territorial boundaries that are internationally recognized by other states. |
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| Supranational organization |
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collections of individual statea with a common goal that may be economic and/or political in nature and that diminish, to some extent, individual state sovereignity in favor of the group interests of the membership.
European Union(EU)
North American Free Trade Association(NAFTA)
Association of South East Asian Nations(ASEAN) |
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Representations of particular values or aspirations that the builders and financiers of those lanscapes want ot impart to a larger public.
neoclassical architecture- greek city-state- washington D.C. |
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| THE rate at which places move closer together in travel or communication time or costs. |
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| the connections beween, or connectibity of, particular points in space. |
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| the usefulness of a specific place or location to a particular person or group. |
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| large-scale geographic divisions based on continental and physiographic settings that contain major groupings of peoples with broadly similar cultural attributes. |
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