GEOG 1HA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Spatial Analysis, Regional Geography, Human Geography
13 Jan 2017
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Physical geography: concerned with the physical world (climates and landforms) Human geography: concerned with the human world (argicultural activities and settlement patterns) Three themes central to any study of the human world = relations between humans and land, regionalization, and spatial analysis. 1. landscape exists because of human modi cations to physical geography (crops/buildings) 2. landscape has symbolic content (churches or statues: interpret landscape as the outcome of particular relations between humans and land. Contemporary landscape geography: geographers focus on the human experience of being in landscape. Social and cultural geographic studies of landscape are concerned with visible ( elds, fences, and buildings) and symbolic features (meaning and values) Regional studies: dividing of larger areas into smaller ones that have one or more features in common, smaller areas are de ned as regions. Contemporary regional geography: regional geography currently emphasizes the understanding and description of a particular region and what it means for different people to live there.
