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Geography Matters
Wendy A. Mitteager
State University of New York, Oneonta
Key Concepts
Geography Matters
Place Matters
Geographic Tools
Spatial Relationships
Regional Analysis
Geographical Imagination
Figure 1.3 Influence of
place in a center city
neighborhood, Boston
Geography Matters
Places Matter
Geographic Literacy
Lack of geographic understanding and
knowledge among Americans
Human Geography
Figure 1.A Urban planners examine a model of a new town near Stuttgart, Germany
GIS
Military to private sector
Figure 1.15 Lines of Latitude and Longitude provides a grid pattern on the Earth
Map Projections
Systematic rendering of the Earths surface onto
a flat surface
Equidistant, Conformal, Azimuthal, Equal-area
Distortion of distance, direction, shape, area
GIS Applications
Geodemographic research
Census data combined with commercial data for market research in NYC
Spatial Analysis
Location
fixed coordinates of latitude and longitude
GPS
Figure 1.16 Denver, Colorado is a major center for cable TV because of site
and situation
Space
Absolute or
relative
Cognitive space
Topological
space
(connectivity)
Spatial
Diffusion
The way things
spread through
space and over
time
Expansion
diffusion
Hierarchical
diffusion
Regional Analysis
Regionalization
Functional regions
Regionalism
Sectionalism
Irredentism
Geographical Imagination
Allows us to understand geographic change
Places and regions represent the cumulative
legacy of successive periods of change
General effects and unique outcomes
Future Geographies
End of Chapter 1