GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: United States Geological Survey, Great Circle, Relative Direction
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Place: attributes and values we associate with a particular location (relative definition) Human & physical characteristics of a location. Placelessness no particular feelings or associations. Economic: the spatial distributions of social and economic activities (i. e. , central place, peripheral place) Social and humanistic: locale, or the settings for everyday routine social interaction provided in a place (i. e. , market, church) Cultural: the sense of place," or identification with a place engendered by living in it. Places have location, direction, and distance with respect to other places. A place has size, scale is importanth. A place has both physical structure and cultural content. The attributes of place change over time. The elements of place interrelate with other places. The content of places is structured and explainable. Places may be generalized into regions with similar properties. Unique independent usually defined by coordinate systems. Information about a location relative to other locations. E. g. , back east, out west, up north, down south, left, right, backward, forward.
