GEOG 329 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: North American Free Trade Agreement, Distance Decay, Social Reproduction
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Location: absolute: longitude, latitude, altitude, exact geographical location, relative with regard to physical features or to other political units, references: all from one location i. e: from the countryside/suburbs, from the east side. Interpersonal relations and sense of community" and social proximity. Effects of distance: friction or inhibiting effect of distance(e. g time and cost, distance decay attenuation of a pattern or process with distance. Time space compression": unevenly shrinking of the world": proximity and greater human interaction can result from, physical proximity or technological reduction of distance, socio-cultural homogeneity, functional complementarity. Distribution: location of people, things ideas or events, distribution of interactions and attributes can differentiate between functional" or. Formal" areas(or regions: functional areas: constituted by interactions (e. g commercial or social exchanges, nafta super-corridors", formal areas constituted by homogeneity of attributes (e. g us corn belts), characteristics(e. g administrative unit) Location theory: seeks to account for the location of economic activities.
