GEOG 2RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Railways Act 1921, Social Inequality, Nationstates
14 Jan 2016
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Spatial patterns: where things are located, and how they are arranged spatially where we find factories that make cars, where mountain areas are, etc. Spatial processes: how things got to be the way they are what contributed to locations being where they are. Geographical differences between places/areas (i. e. the uniqueness of. Physical environment (landforms, climate, hydrology, geology, ecology, etc. ) Social environment (economy, culture, politics, behaviour, etc. ) Regional sits in between these two, combine both ideas together. Another way of looking at what geography is what is where, why there, and why care. The study of the distribution of things in space: Description of the spatial organization (patterns) of physical features, people, places, and human phenomena. E. g. mountain ranges, fertile plains, cities, factories, neighbourhoods, nation-states, etc. Explanation of the processes that produce these patterns. E. g. plate tectonics, glaciation, globalization, capitalism, spatial agglomeration, etc. Why care what is the meaning or significance involves interpretation.
