GEOG 201 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Previous Lecture What is spatial analysis o Location GPS Relative Location o Distance Absolute cognitive relative o Space Absolute cognitive relative Outline of Current Lecture What is spatial analysis o Accessibility o Spatial Interaction Complementarity transferability intervening opportunity spatial diffusion o Regional Analysis Regionalization Landscape Sense of place These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Current Lecture Accessibility o Opportunity for contact or interaction between two locations Proximity or distance is important in assessing how accessible something is Connectivity is also critical networks like streets roads internet Economic Cultural Social operating hours ability to bear costs of access cultural barriers Spatial Interaction o Refers to the movement or flows of human activity Complementarity transferability intervening opportunity spatial diffusion Complementarity There must be a complementary need for the interaction Determined through Physical environment International division of labor Economies of scale Transferability The costs of moving an item from one location to another Depends on the place in question and the items market value Is the area well connected Can the price of the market bear the costs associated with the travel Time Space Convergence The rate at which places move closer together in travel or communication Through technologies there is a decrease in the friction of distance Intervening Opportunities Alternative destinations or points of origin Determines not the direction or the network but the flow or pattern of interaction Spatial Diffusion The way things spread over space and time Consider spread of disease mapping diseases and then analyzing how they become diffused over space tells us something Regional Analysis o Understand complex relations between people and places in terms of similarities and differences o Regionalization classification an area sharing the same common coherence Right Meining s Core domain Sphere concept Regionalism circumstances where different religious or ethnic groups with distinctive identities co exist Sectionalism when those feelings of collective identity develop into extreme devotion with an intent towards autonomy Irredentism an assertion by the government of a country that a minority living outside its formal boundary belongs to it often leads to war o Landscape o Landscapes are collections of evidence about the character of inhabitants bear the markings of human actvity through our imprints Read landscapes for names architectural types design symbols Vernacular landscape everyday landscapes filled with items of importance and value Symbolic landscape formal often architectural symbols EX Neo classical buildings in Washington D C Sense of Place Feelings evoked among people as a result of their experiences and memories they associate with a particular place Insiders vs outsiders