GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Distance Decay, Cartogram, Mercantilism
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Mobility: general term for all types of human movement. Often referred to on a local scale. Migration: human movement at larger spatial and temporal scales. The movement from one country, place, or locality to another. Completely new activity space (space used in daily life) Local moves e. g. within a city. A person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or. Cartogram: map that uses statistical data to transform space to appear in persecution proportion to the values. 1st law of geography (tobler"s law): everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. Us census only counts migration if move is to a different country. Economic development in europe and spread of industrialism; mainly european migration. From europe to the new world" 1840-1960. Ww1 and economic depressions stunted migration; anti- immigration policies. Distance decay (tobler"s law) move to places nearby. Step migration: incremental moves to a final destination.
