Human Geography

1
Human Geography

• Jerome D. Fellmann
• Arthur Getis
• Judith Getis
• Jon C. Malinowski

2
Human Geography

• Chapter 3
• Spatial Interaction
• Spatial Behavior

3
Bases for Interaction

• A Summarizing Model
• Complementarity
• Transferability
• Intervening Opportunity

4
Bases for Interaction (cont.)

• Measuring Interaction
• Distance Decay
• The Gravity Concept
• Interaction Potential
• Movement Biases

5
Human Spatial Behavior

• Mobility vs.Migration
• Individual Activity Space
• Territoriality
• The Tyranny of Time
• Space-Time Prism
• Distance and Human Interaction
• Critical Distance

6
Human Spatial Behavior (cont.)

• Spatial Interaction and the Accumulation of
  Information
• Information Flows
• Information and Perception
• Perception of Environment
• Perception of Natural Hazards

7
Migration

• Principal Migration Patterns
• Intercontinental
• Intracontinental
• Interregional
• Rural-to-Urban

8
Types of Migration

• Forced
• Reluctant
• Voluntary

Migrant Mother, 1935 Photographer Dorothea
Lange Source Library of Congress, Prints
Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection
9
Controls on Migration

• Push Pull Factors
• Place Utility
• Spatial Search
• Step Migration
• Chain Migration
• Counter Migration
• Channelized Migration