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Explain the concept of Time-Geography.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Time-geography is a conceptual and notational framework, developed by Torsten Hägerstrand and the Lund School and formalised in his 1970 address "What about people in regional science?", which treats time and space jointly as scarce resources that individuals must draw upon to realise their projects.

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  • Origins: The Lund School and the Corrective to Disembodied Spatial Science
  • The Core Notation: Path, Station, Bundle, Project
  • The Space-Time Prism and the Potential Path Area
  • Hägerstrand's Three Constraints: The Analytical Heart
  • Capability Constraints
  • Coupling Constraints
  • …and 4 more sections, with a conclusion

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