Geo 200 exam 2

Paul Vidal- genres di vi possibilism, patterns of living

Richard Hartshorne- nature of geography, areal differentiation, ideas that geography is distatictive because of regional thinking, considered how things coe existed. Chronological approach to things,

Allen van Newkirk-  bio regionalism, regions are agents of the world,

Anssi Passi- regions become institutionalized, region is territorial and relational, regions are always changing

Kenneth Frampton- critical regionalism, architect

 Forman Region: area defined by shared attributes like climate or language

Functional region: area defined by a single node and interacting between it

Vernacular region: area defriend by culture and people within it

Von Thunen:  von thunen model, citys would form rings, economy in space,

William Bunge: radical geography, mathamatics

Walter Christaller: searched for laws, central place theory, nazi

Edward Ulman: spatial interaction, 3 priciples of interaction and transportation : complementary, intervining opertunity, and transferability

Arthur Strahler: made geography more scientific, advance geomorphology advance physical geography, statistics

Waldo Tobler:   first law of geography, everything is related to everything else but near things are more related

Positivist approach: scientific method, data statistics calculations, trial and error

Positivism: only things experienced through the senses can count as true knowledge

Empiricism: philosophical approach to geography, made through observations,

Legacies of quantitative revolution: Rise of GIS, use of scientific method, professionalism in geography

Pico Della Mirandola: Humanism, man is responsible for himself

Yi-Fu Tuan:  founder of humanistic geography, Space vs Place

Anne Buttimer: social geography, interactions between people and their environment

Why did humanistic geography emerge: through questioning deficiency’s, science not counting for human emotion

Criticism of humanistic geography:  lack of rigor, lack of methodology,

How has humanistic geography evolved since the 1970s: critical theory and refined methodology’s

How can sense of place vary by cohort: age, gender, etc

Marx and Engels critique of capitalist political economy: class struggle, eneven development, alienation

What does a Marxist approach look like in geography: focuses on inequalitys first, goals of social change, historical analysis

Gramisis: cultural homogony: rulling class maintains control not just by force and power but by cultural dominance

Neil Smith: rent gap, gentrification is driven by profit,

Don Mitchell: studied marginalized groups and how they are secluded

David Harvey: Central chapes organization

Key to aproching geography from a feminist perspective: gender is spatial, everyday expiriances matter, patriarchy, expresiionalism

How gillian rose use concepts to inform feminist geography:

How have feminist geography been applied to human nature interactions: ecofeminism, nature is gendered, embodied knowledge

How have feminist geography’s been applied to fear and mobility: Fear- spaces are dangerous for woman, Mobility- mobility is unequal

Reference Map:  to show general information about physical and human made features of a landscape

Mental Map: how individuals represent space and perceive their spatial environments

Thematic map: visualization of specific data or themes of a geographic area

map design elements:

-        Title

-        Legend

-        Scale

-        Line

 Map design essentials:

-        Figure ground

-        Legibility

-        Clarity

-        Balance

-        Visual hierarchy

Absolute data:  raw number counts

Normalized data: data adjusted for comparison

impacts of number of classes on appearance and understanding: to little is oversimplifying to much is hard to interpret

Sequential color scheme: one color light to dark

Diverging color scheme: 2 colors neutral midpoint

Quantitative color scheme: distict hues, non ordered catagorys

Quantile: each class contains same number of unites

Equal interval: data range divided into equal sized classes

Natural Breaks: class breaks at natural gaps in data

Standard deviation: groups based on distance from the mean