Lec 02 Flashcards
(8 cards)
What are the 3 concepts of place?
Geographers questions on Place & Time?
- Changing attributions of place
- Interrelations b/t places:
- Accessibility + Connectivity
- Spatial diffusion + globalization - Rational structure of Place:
- Density
- Dispersion
- Pattern
Geographers tend to ask questions such as:
- Where is it and how did this place come about?
- How has humans changed it over time?
Spatial Diffusion (4) + Globalization (2)
- Dispersion of an idea from one main point to other given areas thereby creating direct or indirect connections.
- Includes positive + negative ideas
- Thought, technology, language, religion
- Terrorism
- Increased connections of peoples and societies all over the world.
- This term now has different meanings to other people.
What are Sacred Places?
Explain Natural and Cultural Landscape + Physical and Cultural Attributes.
Sacred Places: often locations with religious importance, transformed by humans through numerous events such as: war, post-war, etc.
Natural Landscape:
- Physical traits of the land
- Vegetation, climate, soils, topography
Cultural Landscape:
- Human footprint in a given location
- ex. Italy town, was evacuated a while back but now is a popular tourist attraction
Physical + Cultural Attributes:
- ex. One town in Italy used to be a dangerous place, then became a nice location but now is abandoned.
- Human interaction shows that a given location can undergo major changes over the course of time, but physically and culturally.
5 key themes of Human Geography?
Location, Place, Region, Movement, Human Environment/Interaction
What are the 3 parts of Cultural Geographies? Explain each part.
Cultural Processes, Cultural Geographies, Space and Place
Cultural Processes:
1. Cultural Production - Politics, how culture is produced
2. Cultural Consumption - How culture is taken up, interpreted, or commodified.
Give examples of different types of Geography?
Economic:
- How money flows through places.
- Geographic factors that affect economy and its processes
- Impact of globalization on people’s careers?
- Causes and Consequences of uneven development? Leading to potential economic differences?
Urban:
- Morphing of cities, people’s desire for change can = rapid change/accommodations.
(ex. Manhattan: went from crime to beautiful through, reinvestments + redevelopments.)
(ex. Freiburg: Quieter train, despite apartment density, town still has a very active community)
What is Political Geography?
Study of how countries are made, territory is taken, movement of people
ex. Alberta + BC separated by borders
Megacities?
City with >10mil people.
Ex. Tokyo, Beijing
