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In quantitative geography two types of studies can be recognized in terms of its methodology. The first is the study of spatial patterns through morphological viewpoints In this study, the objects and events, distributing in an area, are mapped by using any of the basic geometrical forms such as points, lines, areas, and surfaces. And then, the spatial patterns represented by this map are analyzed by various quantitative techniques. This study induces some morphological laws lying in the spatial patterns and gives a clue for understanding spatial structure.
The second is the study of spatial processes through behavioral viewpoints. This study aims to analyze the movements in an area (spatial processes) such as migration, shopping trip, commodity flow, information flow, and innovation diffusion and identifies some behavioral laws that organize spatial patterns. This paper explores the tendency of spatial patterns to spatial processes, and considers some concepts and techniques in the behavioral studies and their application to spatial behavior models as well.
