Maps that Matter

Time-space geography model

Date: 1970

Creator: Torsten Hägerstrand (1916 - 2004)

(Source: Hägerstrand, T., 1970. What about people in Regional Science? Papers of the Regional Science Association 24, 7-21.)

• Published in Hägerstrand’s influential 1970 article, What About People in Regional Science? in Papers of the Regional Science Association.

• Notion and visualization of space-time paths encouraged a consideration of time as part of social life instead of just an external influence. Continuing influence on wide range of disciplines across social sciences, including in GIScience; e.g. Mei-Po Kwan’s 3D ‘fishtank’ visualisations.
  

Hägerstrand-inspired Kwan’s GIS-generated space time paths, 2004.

(Source: http://geog-www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/mkwan/Gallery/STPaths.htm)