chp 1
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| accessibility | the opportunity for contact or interaction from a given point or location in relation to other places.
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| place making | any activity, deliberate or unintentional, that enables space to acquire meaning.
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| areal units | spatial unit of measurement, such as city block used for recording statistics
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| map projection | a systematic rendering on a flat surface if the geographic coordinates of the feature found on Earth's surface.
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| conformal projections | map projections on which compass bearings are rendered accurately.
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| equal area projection | map projection portraying earth surface to its true porportions.
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| visualization | a computer-assisted representation of spatial data, often including three-dimensanal images and innovative perspectives, that reveal spatial patterns and relations more effectivly
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| regional geography | study of the unique enviornment with distinctive landscapes and cultural attributes
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| site | the physical attributes of a location including terrain, soil, vegetation, water sources
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| situation | the location of a place relative to other places and human activities
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| cognitive images/mental maps | maps created from people individual ideas and impression of ideas
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| cognitive distance | distance people percieve to exist
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| friction of distance | effects of distance on human activity
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| distance decay function | the rate in which something diminishes with increasing distance
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| utlity | the usefulness of a specific place or location to a particular person or group.
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| cognitive space | space defined and measured in terms of nature and degree of peoples values.
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| topographical space | the connections between particular points in space.
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| PLACE (1st meaning) | an objective location that has both uniqueness and interdependence with other places.
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| place 2nd meaning | social and cultural construct,somewhere with personal meaning
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| place making | any activity that enables space to acquire meaning.
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| spatial diffusion | the way by which things spread through space and overtime
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| geodemographic research | using census data to create profiles of populations for market research
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| masculisism | the assumption that the world is and should be shaped mainly by men for men.
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| ethnocetrim | attitude towards somebodies own race or religion that they are superior to others.
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| religion | belief system and a set of practices that recognize the exsitence of a power stronger then humans
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| cultural trait | a single aspect of the complex routine practices that constitute a particular culture group
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| cultural system | a collection of elements/traits that shape a group's collective identity
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| cultural region | the area within which a particula cultural system prevails
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| 2 key components of culture | language and religion
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| diaspora | a spatial dispersion of previously homogenous group.
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