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For centuries, cities and towns have been engines of growth and incubators of civilization and have facilitated the evolution of knowledge, culture and tradition, as well as of industry and commerce, today they emerge as one of the strategic sites where these macro social trends materialize. Among these trends are globalisation and the rise of the new information technologies, the intensifying of transnational and trans-local dynamics, and the strengthening ...
Geography is closely related to politics. One of its branches, political geography, studies the relationship between geographical space and politics. Interest in political geography has diminished after the Second World War. However the end of the Cold War, globalisation and the new threats to security have brought geographical space to the foreground again. Knowing and understanding the geographical concepts and analyses becomes thus essential to students of ...
Geography, in simplest terms, is about locations, places, how people and their cultures interact with their environments, how goods, services and ideas move across space, and how dividing the world into regions can help us understand it all. Social and cultural geography is about how people, as individuals and as members of groups, create places and landscapes for their daily lives; how people understand place, regions, and spatial relationships; how distance and ...