Chapter 3
Our perspective of where things are and the distance between them changes all the time

Part of this new way of thinking you are learning will require new ways to describe places, locations, and distances as well as learning an important concept called scale of analysis and how information about a place can drastically change when you change your scale of analysis.

What you need to learn

How time, distance, and our sense of a place can change based on human factors and scale.

Spatial Concepts-Distance

distance decay

time-space compression

flow

Scale

global scale

national scale

regional scale

local scale

Skill you need to know

You need to understand the difference and be able to identify the scale of a map (global, national, local) and the scale of analysis of a map.

Spatial Concepts-location

site

situation

absolute location

relative location

place

sense of place

placelessness

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