Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: 5 Minute Walk, Deductive Reasoning, Hybridity
24 Jan 2016
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Geo means the earth and graphei means to write in greek words. Often referred to as the study of spatial science and variation (of how and why) and how observable spatial patterns. Basic concerns of human geography that generate theses distributions. 3 main concepts in this course: people, what are humans, people are dynamic, information processors, decision makers, and preference makers. They provide the setting within which human action occurs: cultural attributes: the visible expression of that human activity. Examples include differences in agricultural practices and land use between mexico and southern california. Read the text pg 5 12: ancient period: eratosthenes, strabo, herodotus, ptolemy, idrisi, non-western contributions, modern period, european traditions, development in canada, human-environment interactions: environmental determinism, possibilism, probabilism, evolution from quantitative to feminist radical approaches. Is unique to each of us, though we may share some aspects of our regard for a place with many others: placelessness, uniformity, eliminates the uniqueness of formerly separated locales and cultures.
