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

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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

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