geography 111: human geography
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Geography 111: Human Geography. Office hours. PROFESSOR ZOLTÁN GROSSMAN 258 Phillips Hall 10:00-10:50 MWF Tel. 836-4471 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.uwec.edu/grossmzc. Geography is not just about. Memorizing place names and boundaries. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Geography 111:Geography 111:Human GeographyHuman Geography
Office hours
PROFESSOR ZOLTÁN GROSSMAN258 Phillips Hall 10:00-10:50 MWFTel. 836-4471E-mail: [email protected]: www.uwec.edu/grossmzc
Geography is not just about...
• Memorizing place names and boundaries. (though you need to learn context through maps)
• Where things and people are located (though you need basic descriptive background)
Geography is about...
• Why things and people are where they are.
• How people, things and places interact with each other.
Fields of Geography
• Physical Geography• Human Geography
• People/environment interaction
Geography crosses thehuman-nature border
Geography comparesdifferent places
Eau Claire-sur-le-ChippewaParis-sur-la-Seine
Geography comparesdifferent scales
Geography studies realityon the ground, over time
Hayward
Geography studies anythingrelated to place
Zoltán
“Zoltan, Hound of Dracula”
Zoltarin “Big”
Zoltan, ImperialCommander of the Space Nerds
Hungarian for “Sultan”(from the Ottoman Turkish
occupation of Hungary, 1526-1686)
Geography breaksdown boundaries
• Can cross nature-human border.
• Can compare different places/regions.
• Can compare different scales (local, national, global)
• Can study reality on the ground, over time.
• Can study anything related to place(s).
Human Geography studies…
• How human beings organize our activity spatially, and interact with our environment.
• How and why places are made and remade, and how our home places shape who we are.
• How different places interact spatially.
What Human Geographers Do
• Human Geography involves the investigation of the relationship between people and place.
• “The Earth as the home of human beings.”• (Yi-Fu Tuan)
• “Writing the earth”: ‘to write” (graphien) the earth (geo)”.
Making Space into Place
Space is abstract,geometric, empty,like an impersonallocation on a grid
Place is constructed byhuman beings, and givenmeaning through social interaction/memories.
What is a Place?
• LOCALE (physical attributes of place)
• LOCATION (relationship to other places)
• SENSE OF PLACE (feelings evoked by place)
Lambeau Field as a place• LOCALE (turf, players, stands, fans)
• LOCATION (part of National Football
League)
• SENSE OF PLACE (Green & gold, Memories
of Lombardi. Starr, etc.)
Gettysburg as a place• LOCALE (grassy hills, forest, cannons,
visitors)
• LOCATION (part of Civil War strategy,
part of National Park Service)
• SENSE OF PLACE (Many soldiers buried, turning
point in war, Lincoln speech)
Earth as a place• LOCALE (physical geography)
• LOCATION (in solar system; Sun effects weather, crops)
• SENSE OF PLACE (mental map)
Why Place Matters• All social activity is embedded in place
• Places therefore provide the settings for people’s daily lives .
• Social interaction in turn shapes the place.
Human Geography Today
• Studying the relationship of place to people as…
– Social beings– Consumers– Producers