GEO 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Demographic Transition, Total Fertility Rate, Birth Rate
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Place, region, scale, distribution, diffusion: place. Refer to the subjective defined qualities/meanings of a location. Qualitative attributes gives them specific significant information. A strong sense of place: attitudes of people towards the areas. Interested human geographers want the social meaning and groups have to places. Social experiences, ethnicity, race, sexuality and borders. May have shared meanings but not universal. Human geographers use qualitative methods looking at social patterns: region. Describes a unit of earth"s surface containing a distinct combination of features. Functional or nodal area that is organized around node or focal point. Formal or uniformed regions where one or more characteristics are shared. Perceptual or vernacular believed to exist based on cultural identity. Borders might shift over time: scale. Used to refer to spatial extent of human organization. Social, political, economic, culture are not static, may be transformed over time. Time space compression over time, reduces time something travels space: distribution to space.
