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 Figure 1-29

Scale  Globalization –Economic globalization  Transnational corporations –Cultural globalization  A global culture?

Space: Distribution of Features  Distribution—three features –Density  Arithmetic  Physiological  Agricultural –Concentration –Pattern

Spatial Interaction  Transportation networks  Electronic communications and the “death” of geography?  Distance decay Figure ights_movie.rvt

FRQ Free Response Question  You will answer each FRQ as best you can.  You MUST Write in Prose – COMPLETE SENTENCES  This FRQ will be 10 minutes  You May use your notes Figure 1-30

FRQ Free Response Question  Explain how technological advances in the 20 th century impacted contagious diffusion globally. –Use specific examples Figure 1-30