Thinking Geographically

Geography is not a list of places. It is a set of questions about why things are located where they are, and what those patterns reveal about human behavior and decision-making. This unit gives you the analytical vocabulary that makes every subsequent unit work: scale, spatial distribution, distance decay, region, pattern, and diffusion. The core claim here is that location is never neutral. Where something is tells you something about what it is and how it functions.

8–10% of exam