GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Built Environment, Relativism, Public Space
18 Jun 2018
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Geography 106 Intensive Course – QUIZ #1 – Intro, Spatial Concepts, Environment & Perception
Know what the course is about – what does it explore?
- Environment: but not the interpretation you probably have of it
- Behaviour: yours and others and why you do what you do
- Perception: how you and others view the world, and how these perceptions shape urban environments
- Relativism: how we can all witness the same event, but have differing views of it depending on the many cognitive
filters through which we view those events
- Scale: how we judge size, area, distance in relative and absolute terms, and act upon those decisions
How do we define environment and how many “environments” are there?
- Environment: Space that is created by, used by, or impinges on people, whether they are aware of it or not
- Physical environment: the “natural” world
- Built environment: the human built world
- Socio-economic environment: the cultural world
- Phenomenal environment: physical milieu in which behavior takes place
- Behavioral environment: psychological milieu in which behavior takes place
- Contextual environment: Life cycle/stage, life style, life level
Know what the P-Plane and C-Field are and how they work.
- P-Plane (Plane of Perception):
- Nature, what is “out there” beyond our minds
- C-Field (Field of Constructs):
- Well-defined constructed concepts that can be measured, giving facts, quantitative or qualitative
Know what the “ordering of experience” means, how it works, and what examples of each step there are.
Know what the “Wisdom of the Crowd” means.
The Law of Large Numbers
- The Wisdom of the Crowd is based on the LLN, which states that as the # of trials of a random process increases,
the percentage difference between the expected and actual values approaches 0
- Basically, the larger your sample, the closer your average guess
- E.g. the “average” value for a 6-sided die is:
1+2+3+4+5+6/6 = 3.5… so if you throw the die many times and kep a cumulative average, the average
should approach 3.5 as the # of throws increases
- The Wisdom of the Crowd (The Statistical Law of Large Numbers): is in our lives because while you may be fairly
unpredictable, we are very predictable
The system “knows” what we want and how we behave and think
Document Summary
Geography 106 intensive course quiz #1 intro, spatial concepts, environment & perception. Environment: but not the interpretation you probably have of it. Behaviour: yours and others and why you do what you do. Perception: how you and others view the world, and how these perceptions shape urban environments. Relativism: how we can all witness the same event, but have differing views of it depending on the many cognitive filters through which we view those events. Scale: how we judge size, area, distance in relative and absolute terms, and act upon those decisions. Environment: space that is created by, used by, or impinges on people, whether they are aware of it or not. Phenomenal environment: physical milieu in which behavior takes place. Behavioral environment: psychological milieu in which behavior takes place. Contextual environment: life cycle/stage, life style, life level. Know what the p-plane and c-field are and how they work.
