1.4 Spatial Concepts

The area between two or more phenomena or things.

• Space

• Place

• Location

• Pattern

Where specific phenomena are located either on a grid system or relative to another location

• Location

• space

• place

• Site

The specific human physical characteristic of a location

• Place

• Space

• Site

• Region

A group of places in the same area that shares a characteristic.

• region

• place

• space

• site

The characteristics of the immediate location

• site

• situation

• place

• space

The location of a place relative to its surroundings and connectivity

• situation

• site

• region

• space

Human perception of a place. Differs from person to person based on perspective.

• sense of place

• toponym

• placelessness

• region

Place name

• Toponym

• Sense of Place

• Placelessness

• Patterns

Shrinking distance between locations because of improved methods of transportation.

• time-space compression

• impact of distance

• friction of distance

• distance decay

The contact, movement, and flow of things between locations.

• spatial interactions

• spatial patterns

• flow

• compression