GEOG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Absolute Time And Space, Scientific Method, Environmental Determinism
2 Mar 2020
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Geog 210 : places and spaces: place and space. Place can be zoomed in to one location like a coffee shop all the way to a country scale: place exists at many scales. Juxtaposition of different places at the same time. Is subjective see through your eyes can be different from others read a place as difference. Defined in contrast with different types of locations places are related/ connected. Places are geographic locales of any size and are dynamic in a state of constant transformation which have cultural and subjective meanings: places are connected and form a bigger network. Topophilia love of a place (sacred sites number of people share a sense of sacredness of a place) Topo phobia repulsion for a place. Use all the time but difficult to define. Conveys a sense of betweenness/ emptiness between objects. Oxford dictionary: a continuous area or expanse which is free, available or unoccupied.
