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Similarity of Different Places Scale: From local to global
– Globalization of economy– Globalization of culture
Space: Distribution of features– Distribution– Gender and ethnic diversity in space
Connections between places– Spatial interaction– Diffusion
Globalization of the Economy
Fig. 1-17: The Denso corporation is headquartered in Japan, but it has regional headquarters and other facilities in North America and Western Europe.
Globalization of culture
Affects of globalization of culture– Fewer local differences– Enhanced communications– Unequal access– Difficulty in maintaining of local traditions
There is also globalization of environment– Sensitive and insensitive environmental
modification
Spatial Interaction
Interdependence exists among places based upon the degree of spatial interaction. – Spatial interaction is established through the
movement of people, ideas, and objects between regions.
– For example, Travel has changed considerably over the last 500 years.
Spatial Interaction
In the past, most forms of interaction among cultural groups required the physical movement of settlers, explores, and plunders from one place to another. – Today travel by car or plane is much faster and
communication is instantaneous. – When places are connected to each other
through a network, geographers say there is a spatial interaction between them.
Airline Route Networks
Fig. 1-21: Delta Airlines, like many others, has configured its route network in a “hub and spoke” system.
Space–Time Compression
Figure 1-29
Scale
Globalization–Economic globalization
Transnational corporations–Cultural globalization
A global culture?
Space: Distribution of Features
Distribution—three features–Density
ArithmeticPhysiologicalAgricultural
–Concentration–Pattern
Spatial Interaction Transportation networks Electronic communications and
the “death” of geography? Distance decay
Figure 1-30
http://flightaware.com/analysis/allflights_movie.rvt
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