Introduction to Cultural Geography

							 Where is AIDs?     Where are American blacks?
 Where do we find   Where are cows produced?
  hunger?
Describing Distributions
Describing Distributions
Tobler’s 1st Law of Geography

All things are related. However, all other
 things being equal, those things that are
     closest together are more related.


           Distance Decay
           Types of Diffusion

    Contagious – spreads adjacently
    Hierarchical – spreads to most linked
    people or places first.
    Stimulus – idea promotes a local
    experiment or change in the way people
    do things.
• Relocation
• Expansion
 Hierarchical
 Contagious
 Stimulus
Innovation, Big
City, Most
Developed
Country, the
wealthy…passes
to those one
ladder down in
importance
Contagious Diffusion
Contagious Diffusion
                 Stimulus Diffusion




   The idea of fast food travels but the food items did
    not go with the idea
   Idea of recording went from tapes, VCR’s….DVR!!