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time-geography  

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  • Time-geography refers to a set of concepts and a way of thinking that offer a notational system to describe and analyze individuals’ and populations’ existence, coexistence, constraints, and conflicts in time-space. The time-geographic approach was originally presented in the late 1960s by Torsten Hägerstrand, a well-known professor of human geography at Lund University, Sweden. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Time-Geography]

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