Time geography

Time geography or time-space geography is an evolving transdisciplinary perspective on spatial in addition to temporal processes and events such(a) as social interaction, ecological interaction, social and environmental change, and biographies of individuals. Time geography "is non a intended area per se", but rather an integrative ontological advantage example and visual language in which space and time are basic dimensions of analysis of dynamic processes. Time geography was originally developed by human geographers, but today it is applied in combine fields related to transportation, regional planning, geography, anthropology, time-use research, ecology, environmental science, and public health. According to Swedish geographer Bo Lenntorp: "It is a basic approach, and every researcher can connect it to theoretical considerations in her or his own way."

Later developments

Since the 1980s, time geography has been used by researchers in the social sciences, the biological sciences, and in interdisciplinary fields.

In 1993, British geographer Gillian Rose listed that "time-geography shares the feminist interest in the quotidian paths traced by people, and again like feminism, links such paths, by thinking about constraints, to the larger environments of society." However, she noted that time geography had not been applied to issues important to feminists, and she called it a hold of "social science masculinity". Over the coming after or as a solution of. decades, feminist geographers construct revisited time geography and have begun to ownership it as a tool to quotation feminist issues.

GIS software has been developed to compute and analyze time-geographic problems at a shape of spatial scales. Such analyses have used different vintage of network datasets such as walking networks, highway networks, and public transit schedules as well as a variety of visualization strategies. Specialized software such as GeoTime has been developed to facilitate time-geographic visualization and visual analytics.

Time geography has also been used as a form of therapeutic assessment in mental health.

Benjamin Bach and colleagues have generalized the space-time cube into a model for temporal data visualization that applies to all data that can be represented in two dimensions plus time.

In the COVID-19 pandemic, time geography approaches were applied to identifycontacts. The pandemic imposed restrictions on the physical mobility of humans, which invited new applications of time geography in the increasingly virtualized post-Covid era.