9 - Geographical Space as a Mixture of Basic Spatial Structures

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We described the analysis of relatively simple spatial structures. However, terrestrial space is a combination of the following three basic structures: points, fields and networks. The simplest combinations incorporate similar elementary structures, for example, the way a set of points is correlated to another set of points or a network to another network. Thus, geographers question the relationships between businesses and their customers, or between a waterway network and a highway system. Sometimes the two basic structures differ. A city, i.e. a point, dominates its region, i.e. a field. These combinations of spatial structures are dealt. More generally, a terrestrial space is a structure that combines several spatial structures made of points, fields and networks. These complex structures are addressed, which mainly focuses on the graphic modeling of choremes. Moreover, the vast majority of these relationships are part of a multiscale organization. This topic is quite common in geography will focus on it.