Human Geography

Jerome D. FellmannArthur GetisJudith GetisJon C. Malinowski

Human Geography

Chapter 3

Spatial Interaction&

Spatial Behavior

Bases for Interaction• A Summarizing Model

– Complementarity– Transferability– Intervening Opportunity

Bases for Interaction (cont.)

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

Human Spatial Behavior

• Mobility vs.Migration• Individual Activity Space

– Territoriality

• The Tyranny of Time– Space-Time Prism

• Distance and Human Interaction– Critical Distance

Human Spatial Behavior (cont.)

• Spatial Interaction and the Accumulation of Information– Information Flows

• Information and Perception– Perception of Environment– Perception of Natural Hazards

Migration

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

Types of Migration

• Forced• Reluctant• Voluntary

Migrant Mother, 1935Photographer: Dorothea Lange

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection

Controls on Migration

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