Geography Has a Fourth Dimension: Time
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Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
The article explores the concept that geography has a temporal dimension—places change over time, so describing a location is really describing a snapshot of it from a specific era. Using anecdotes about Indian immigrants carrying outdated cultural perspectives and the author's outdated view of Los Angeles, Sivers argues that our understanding of places is frozen in time when we last experienced them, making geography inherently four-dimensional (space + time).
Key quotes
· 3 pulledForty years ago, a family moved from India to Canada, and raised their children with 'Indian values'. When those children visited India last year, the locals laughed at their outdated beliefs. What their family had said were facts were just a perspective from 1980.
Talking with an old friend that's still there, I said it's the nicest place I've ever lived, and why. She said, 'Oh wow. You haven't been here in a while. It's not like that anymore.'
She said my description was like looking at an old photo.
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