Places may be natural (such as an undisturbed wetland) or highly modified (like a large urban conurbation). Place refers to how people perceive a location. You often have mental images and perceptions of places — your city, suburb, town or neighbourhood — and these may be very different from someone else’s perceptions of the same places.
SkillBuilder discussion Concluding and decision-making 1. What challenges would you imagine that people living in the Paraisopolis favela face? 2. Would the residents of the favela have a different
FIGURE2 The Paraisópolis favela (slum), home to 60 000 people, is situated next to the gated complexes of the wealthy Morumbi district of São Paulo in Brazil.
sense of ‘place’ to that of the residents of the wealthier areas?
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What is interconnection?
People and things are connected to other people and things in their own and other places. Understanding these connections helps us to understand how and why places are changing. The concept of interconnection emphasises that no object of geographical study can be viewed in isolation. It is about the ways that geographical phenomena are connected to each other through environmental processes, the movement of people, flows of trade and investment, the purchase of goods and services, cultural influences and the exchange of ideas and information. An event in one location can lead to change in a place some distance away.
FIGURE3 Distribution of annual rainfall in Australia
Darwin
Tully
Brisbane
Kati Thanda– Lake Eyre
Perth
Sydney
Adelaide
Canberra
Key Average annual rainfall (mm)
Melbourne
Over 2400
800 to 1200
400 to 800
2000 to 2400
Hobart
200 to 400
1600 to 2000
0 250 500 km
Under 200
1200 to 1600
Source: MAPgraphics Pty Ltd, Brisbane
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