THE SPATIAL TRADITION

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1MODULE 1.3 THE SPATIAL TRADITION The Centrality of the Spatial Tradition Of all the geographic traditions, it can be argued that the central one, the one to which the other two are necessarily subordinated, is the spatial. How, for example, can one talk about regions without talking about relative locations, boundaries, the movements that constitute particular regions? The same goes for work in the people-environment tradition: people forge relations with nature in particular places and those places may, or may not be at some remove; likewise nature is constituted spatially, through the movements of airmasses, the migration of biota, and the like.

• spatial tradition
• geography departments at harvard
• interregional input-output analysis
• area diminishes as area increases
• borrowing of methods from quantitative plant ecology for the analysis of point patterns
• effect of landmass distribution on atmospheric pressure distributions
• quantitative revolution
• regression coefficient
• geography