Five fundament themes of Geography

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Five fundament themes of Geography

• Anoka Public Schools Workshop Jan 67
• Minnesota Historical Society
• David A Lanegran
• Macalester College

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Five Fundament Themes

• Location
• Place
• Human environmental interaction
• Spatial interactions ( movement or connections
  among places )
• Regional concept

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Location how do we know where we are?

• determined by angles or directions
• separation or distance

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Three types of systems

• Egocentric self-centered
• Domicentric - centered on home or safe place -
  uses landmarks
• Conventional - Based on celestial landmarks

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Egocentric directions

• Toward the pull of gravity UP AND DOWN
• Visible or invisible FRONT AND BACK
• Laterality of brain LEFT AND RIGHT

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Egocentric distance

• Personal space cultural specific
• Intimate distance an embrace up to 18
• Personal distance the length of an arm with a
  sword up to 6 the space for most conversation
• Social distance 6-12 the distance for most
  social interaction
• Public distance 12- 25

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Relative location

• measured in a variety of ways to show
• ease of connection
• degree of separation
• importance

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Absolution location

• mathematical location in earths grid
• Need because humans traveled into areas without
  terrestrial landmarks
• Navigation - finding location or way finding at
  sea

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Absolute location

• Creation of world map long goal of societies
• Europeans first to create an accurate map of the
  world
• Depended on concepts of mathematical grid
• Latitude Elevation of polar star
• Longitude need for clock to keep accurate time
  at sea

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carver
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Place Human and Physical Characteristics

• PLACES have character that consists of both
  human and physical elements
• PLACES have meaning
• Geographers study places

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Human Environment interaction

• Human impact on environment
• Environment presents range of possibilities for
  humans
• Culture acts a lens magnifying or reducing the
  impacts in different times and places

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Humans change environment
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Human move and invent new plants
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Spatial interaction

• This has been simplified by NGS to movement
• Focus in on connections among places.

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Circulation systems

• Circulation means transportation and
  communication
• Concept includes invisible as well as landscape
• Focus on cultural landscapes of movement
• Forces in market other opportunities or
  developments

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The analogy of the bicycle
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Aggregate news flow 1993 USENET pre - WWW
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The switch from network to surface
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Who are we talking to and what are we talking
about?
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Regional concept

• Regionalization is the process of classifying
  places
• Regions are mental constructs
• The boundary problem
• Boundaries are meaningful breaks in a gradient