Monday, October 19, 2009
What is Geographical Space....
We have considered what Space is as a concept but how does it relate to Geography....
"Geography is the branch of science concerned with identifying and describing the Earth, utilizing spatial awareness to try and understand why things exist in specific locations.
Geographical space is often considered as land, and can have a relation to ownership usage (in which space is seen as property or territory). While some cultures assert the rights of the individual in terms of ownership, other cultures will identify with a communal approach to land ownership, while still other cultures such as Australian Aboriginals, rather than asserting ownership rights to land, invert the relationship and consider that they are in fact owned by the land. Spatial planning is a method of regulating the use of space at land-level, with decisions made at regional, national and international levels. Space can also impact on human and cultural behavior, being an important factor inarchitecture, where it will impact on the design of buildings and structures, and on farming.
Ownership of space is not restricted to land. Ownership of airspace and of waters is decided internationally. Other forms of ownership have been recently asserted to other spaces — for example to the radio bands of the electromagnetic spectrum or to cyberspace.
Public space is a term used to define areas of land as collectively owned by the community, and managed in their name by delegated bodies; such spaces are open to all. Whileprivate property is the land culturally owned by an individual or comany, for their own use and pleasure.
Abstract space is a term used in geography to refer to a hypothetical space characterized by complete homogeneity. When modeling activity or behavior, it is a conceptual tool used to limit extraneous variables such as terrain."
Source, Wikipedia 2oo9
Image
- Paintings
- Photographs
- Landscape drawings
- Animations.
Look at the following and reflect on what you see? Are these affective in portraying the use of space and why?
What things do we use everyday to keep our spaces going?
Definition of Space
(Thrift, 2003;96)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Ice city
At a glance, this magnificent city looks like a thriving, ever growing urban centre. This in fact is a city made out of ICE. This ice sculpture is one of many, that is created as part of a winter showcase, in Harbin Northeast China in the Heilongjiang Province. This is another example of how people have utilised space and transformed it into something spectacular.
http://iasos.com/news/ice.html