GEO 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scarborough Town Centre, Ontario Highway 401, Mental Mapping
1 May 2012
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Defined by its approach to study as it is by what it studies humans and environments. Concerned with the nature of location, space, place, distance, direction and orientation of humans and the environments in which they have to function. Concerned with the geometry of things, their arrangement, movement between them and why these arrangements and movements arise. Principal goal is to explain general patterns of human settlement and behaviour. Concern is with differentiating regions of places based on given sets of attributes. Geographers are concerned with describing regions and comparing them with other regions. Principal goal here is to describe the unique attributes of places rather than to explain general patterns found. Concern is with how humans affect environments and how environments affect humans. How do we perceive environments and how we are ultimately affected by what happens in those environments. Managing the environment and the two-way impacts between us and it. Recognizing that we and it are one thing.
