Geography 153E: Geography of Everyday Life
Winter 2003 MWF 11:00-11:50 am Ellison 3621
Instructor: Dr. James Marston e-mail: marstonj@geog.ucsb.edu
TA: Meri Marsh email: marsh@geog.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00 pm North Hall 1016
Labs: W 1-2 pm; R 12-1 pm Ellison 2610 (Star Lab)
Course Text: Reader Available
Goal:
The purpose of this course is to explore and formalize the “natural” geographic knowledge that we acquire through our lifespan. Most people are “aware” of more geography than they acknowledge. We aim to make some of this implicit knowledge explicit.
Mon: Jan 6th Introduction to Course and Labs. Discussions and Introduction to Common Sense Geography
Wed: Jan 8th Geographic Concepts and how they occur and are used in everyday life (Golledge, R. G. [2002] The Nature of Geographic Knowledge)
Fri: Jan 10th Derived Geographic Concepts - giving structure to what you already “know” (Golledge, R. G. [2002] The Nature of Geographic Knowledge)
Mon: Jan 13th Understanding our Urban Society (Hägerstrand, 1970) *hC4
Wed: Jan 15th Scheduling your day: episodes, frequencies, intervals, constraints (Axhausen & Gärling, 1992) *Ch9
Fri: Jan 17th Your options as a commuter, a shopper, and a tourist (Hanson & Hanson, 1993)
Mon: Jan 20th Holiday - Martin Luther King’s Birthday
Wed: Jan 22nd The Language of Geography: Absolute and relative locations & fuzzy spatial prepositions *Ch11
Fri: Jan 24th Finding your way (Golledge, 1992) *Ch 5
Wed: Jan 29th Shopping behavior and shopping center location *Ch 10
Fri: Jan 31st “Knowing” your environment (Golledge [2002] Cognitive Maps) Ch 7
Mon: Feb 3rd What you learned as a child about geographic space *Ch 5 H&M
Wed: Feb 5th How adults acquire spatial knowledge *Ch 5
Fri: Feb 7th Mental Maps and distortions: How “common sense” distorts your world.
Mon: Feb 10th Globalization (Golledge & Stimson, 1997) (Not in Reader)
Wed: Feb 12th Globalization (cont.) (Mid-term Review)
Fri: Feb 14th Mid-term
Mon: Feb 17th Holiday - President’s Day
Wed: Feb 19th Hazards and risks (Cutter, 2001) and (Kates, 1967) Ch 6
Fri: Feb 21st The Places we Like and Dislike: Space Preferences and Place Images (Jenkins, et al., 1999) *Ch 11
Mon: Feb 24th Transportation planning and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS): How smart are we? and how smart can our highways become? (Hodge & Morrill, 1996) (Not in Reader) *Ch 9
Wed: Feb 26th The world through the senses of the disabled (Golledge [2002] Disability, Disadvantage, and Discrimination)
Fri: Feb 28th Activity patterns, behavior and transit use of non-drivers (Marston et al., 1997) Not in reader. (Blind guest)
Mon: Mar 3rd Helping blind people access environments
Wed: Mar 5th Helping wheelchair users access environments (Marston, J Web link) (http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~marstonj/INTRO_TO_ACCESS.htm)
(Wheelchair using guests)
Fri: Mar 7th Wayfinding myths - do men not ask for directions? and can women not find their car in a parking lot? *Ch 5
Mon: Mar 10th Do men and women have equivalent spatial abilities? (Montello, et al., 1999)
Wed: Mar 12th Formalizing what we know: Males and females, common sense, and expert geography (Montello, et al., 1999)
Fri: Mar 14th Review
153E: Laboratories
The labs will be designed to show the basic geography embedded within many everyday activities. Decisions on activity scheduling, destination choice, travel behavior, residential site selection, route selection, frequency of telephone communication, selection of a college or university or high school to attend, choice of supermarkets and shopping centers, and many other everyday activities represent the application of geographic concepts to help solve problems. In the labs, we formalize the processes at work and demonstrate how naive geography becomes expert knowledge. This will be done in part by using a GIS (Arcmap) to create representations of our spatial knowledge.
Laboratory Outlines will be provided separately
Exams: 1 Mid-term (30% Final Grade)
1 Final (40% Final Grade)
Laboratories: (30% Final Grade)
Labs are due at the end of the week after the lab is completed (i.e. 1:00 p.m. on the following Friday). Late submissions lose one full letter grade every 3 late days.
Cheating will not be tolerated on exams or laboratories.
*Axhausen, K. W., & Gärling, T. (1992). Activity-based approaches to travel analysis - Conceptual frameworks, models, and research problems. Transport Reviews, 12(4), 323-341.
Cutter, S. L. (2001). The changing nature of risks and hazards. In S. L. Cutter (Ed.), American Hazardscapes: The Regionalization of Hazards and Disasters (pp. 1-12). Washington, DC: Joseph Henry Press.
*Golledge, R. G., & Stimson, R. J. (1997). Spatial Behavior: A Geographic Perspective. New York: Guilford Press. Chapter 3 (Globalization).
Golledge, R. G. (1992). Place recognition and wayfinding: Making sense of space. Geoforum, 23(2), 199-214.
Golledge, R. G. (2002). Cognitive Maps. In K. Kempf-Leonard (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (Submitted). San Diego, CA: Academic Press Inc.
Golledge, R. G. (2002). Disability, Disadvantage, and Discrimination: An Overview with Special Emphasis on Blindness in the USA. In A. Bailly & L. Gibson (Eds.), Applied Geography . (Submitted).
Golledge, R. G. (2002). The nature of geographic knowledge. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 92(1), 1-14.
Hägerstrand, T. (1970). What about people in regional science? Papers of the Regional Science Association, 24, 7-21.
Hanson, S., & Hanson, P. (1993). The geography of everyday life. In T. Gärling & R. G. Golledge (Eds.), Behavior and Environment (pp. 249-269). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
*Hodge, D. C., & Morrill, R. L. (1996). Implications of intelligent transportation systems for metropolitan forms. Urban Geography, 17(8), 714-739.
Jenkins, O., Golledge, R. G., & Stimson, R. J. (1999). Tourist destination images and stereotypes: A study of backpacker tourists playing 'Crocodile Dundee' in Australia. Environmental Behavior, submitted.
Kates, R. W. (1967). The perception of storm hazard on the shores of Megalopolis. In D. Lowenthal (Ed.), Environmental Perception and Behavior (Research Paper No. 109, pp. 60-69). Chicago: Department of Geography, University of Chicago.
*Levine, M., Marchon, I., & Hanley, G. L. (1984). The placement and misplacement of you-are-here maps. Environment and Behavior, 16, 139-157.
*Marston, J. R., Golledge, R. G., & Costanzo, C. M. (1997). Investigating travel behavior of nondriving blind and vision impaired people: The role of public transit. The Professional Geographer, 49(2), 235-245.
Marston, J.R., Web page (http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~marstonj/INTRO_TO_ACCESS.htm
Montello, D. R., Lovelace, K. L., Golledge, R. G., & Self, C. M. (1999). Sex-related differences and similarities in geographic and environmental spatial abilities. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 89(3), 515-534.
*Stored on library web site <http://eres.library.ucsb.edu>
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