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Key issue #3. Why are different places similar?. Scale: From Local to Global. People were thinking “globally but want to act locally” Globally look at broad picture…pop. growth Locally would looking at ethnic groups in a neighborhood. Globalization of Economy.
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Key issue #3 Why are different places similar?
Scale: From Local to Global • People were thinking “globally but want to act locally” • Globally look at broad picture…pop. growth • Locally would looking at ethnic groups in a neighborhood.
Globalization of Economy • Globalization is a process that involves the entire world and results in making something world wide in scope. • Human activities is rarely confined to one location • Scale of the world is shrinking. Why? • Very few people live in the remote areas • Transnational corporations led the globalization…they conduct research, operate factories, and sell products all over the world
cont… • With tech…$$$ is moved easier • Transcorps will move location when it is valuable to the company…outsources
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 • Companies will keep uniform characteristics among all the countries • What are ie’s of companies that keep certain items the same? • English is universal language • threatening local cultures
Distribution:Density, Concentration, & Pattern Fig. 1-18: The density, concentration, and pattern (of houses in this example) may vary in an area or landscape.
Space: Distribution of Features • Spatial thinking is essential to understand the arrangement of objects across Earth. • Each building or person occupies a unique space on Earth • The arrangement of a feature in space is known as distribution • 3 properties of distribution: density, concentration and pattern
Density • The frequency in which something occurs • Arithmetic Density: Total Number of objects in an area • Physiological Density:# of persons per unit of area suitable for ag • Agricultural Density:# of farmers per unit of farmland
Concentration • Extent of a feature’s spread over space. • If the objects are close together, they’re clustered. • If they are far apart they are dispersed.
What are three examples of objects that are clustered and dispersed?
Pattern • The geometric distribution of objects in space • Land Ordiance of 1785 gave grid patterns to the west. • College students planted pipe bombs across the US…the pattern…smiley face • How are MLB organized?
Township & Range System in the US Fig. 1-4: Principal meridians & east-west baselines of the township system. Townships in northwest Mississippi & topographic map of the area.
Tallahatchie River, Mississippiin Township Sections The Tallahatchie River is located in the southeast and southwest quarter-sections of Section 32, T23N R1E.
U.S. Baseball Teams, 2007 Fig. 1-19: By 2007, U.S. baseball teams were much more dispersed than in 1952, and their number and density at a national level had increased.
U.S. Baseball Teams, 1952 Fig. 1-19: Baseball teams were highly concentrated in the Northeast and Midwest in 1952.
Density and Concentration of Baseball Teams, 1952 & 2007 Fig. 1-19: The changing distribution of North American baseball teams illustrates the differences between density and concentration.
Gender and Ethnic Diversity in Space • Patterns vary among gender and ethnicity. • How would a typical family move in space? • What would a boy or girl do differently in a day? • How do ethnic groups move differently?
Connection between Places • Spatial interaction • Diffusion • Relocation Diffusion • Expansion Diffusion • Hierarchal Diffusion • Contagious Diffusion • Stimulus Diffusion • Diffusion of Culture and Economy
Space-Time Compression, 1492-1962 Fig. 1-20: The times required to cross the Atlantic, or orbit the earth, illustrate how transport improvements have shrunk the world.
Airline Route Networks Fig. 1-21: Continental Airlines, like many others, has configured its route network in a “hub and spoke” system.
Diffusion Group Work • Divide the class into 5 groups: • Each group must contain a reader, writer, drawer, and presenter. • You will research one of the following examples of Diffusion • You must write notes on an overhead and draw a picture to represent you example of diffusion
AIDS Diffusion in the US,1981-2002 Fig. 1-22: New AIDS cases were concentrated in three nodes in 1981. They spread through the country in the 1980s, but declined in the original nodes in the late 1990s.
