World Regional Geography
World Regional Geography
A Question of Place
English, Paul Ward; Miller, J.A. (Clemson University, South Carolina, USA)
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
04/1989
592
Dura
Inglês
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This text divides the world into two types of societies: the technological and the developing world. It provides coverage of each region, and discusses how each region has evolved in terms of history, economy, culture and geography.
Part 1 The human world remade: the human world remade; the geography of development. Part 2 The technological world: Western Europe; North America; the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Japan and Korea: the East Asian rim; Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific world. Part 3 The developing world: Latin America; China; South Asia; Southeast Asia; the Middle East and North Africa; Africa; map scale; topographic maps; map projections; urban mapping: Tokyo; mapping water need - water-balance diagrams; cartograms; mapping with isolines; mapping population; remote sensing of the environment; the beginnings of cartography; map symbols; list of geolabs: location theory: the Von Thnen model; spatial diffusion; formal regions - the use of Venn diagrams; megalopolis - a coalescing of cities; environmental perception; elevation and environment; culture regions: core, domain, and sphere; central place theory; the monsoon; rural settlement patterns; climographs of human comfort; n
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This text divides the world into two types of societies: the technological and the developing world. It provides coverage of each region, and discusses how each region has evolved in terms of history, economy, culture and geography.
Part 1 The human world remade: the human world remade; the geography of development. Part 2 The technological world: Western Europe; North America; the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; Japan and Korea: the East Asian rim; Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific world. Part 3 The developing world: Latin America; China; South Asia; Southeast Asia; the Middle East and North Africa; Africa; map scale; topographic maps; map projections; urban mapping: Tokyo; mapping water need - water-balance diagrams; cartograms; mapping with isolines; mapping population; remote sensing of the environment; the beginnings of cartography; map symbols; list of geolabs: location theory: the Von Thnen model; spatial diffusion; formal regions - the use of Venn diagrams; megalopolis - a coalescing of cities; environmental perception; elevation and environment; culture regions: core, domain, and sphere; central place theory; the monsoon; rural settlement patterns; climographs of human comfort; n
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