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concentration the spatial property of being crowded together functional region Area organized around a node or focal point. The characteristic chosen to define this kind of region dominates at a central focus or node and diminishes in importance outward. This region is tied to the central point by transportation or communication systems or by economic or functional associations. (nodal region) regional concept The view that physical and cultural phenomena on the surface of the earth are rationally arranged by complex, diverse, but comprehensible interrelated spatial processes. relative direction culturally based and locationally variable direction despite reference to cardinal compass points eg. "Near and Far East" relative distance Distance measured in terms such as cost or time which are more meaningful for the space relationship in question remote sensing detecting the nature of an object and the content of an area from a distance site the physical and cultural characteristics and attributes of the place itself spatial system functions as a unit because its component parts are interdependent