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A Brief Review of <strong>Time</strong> Geography:<br />

• Hägerstrand’s (1970) time geography provides a useful<br />

framework <strong>for</strong> studying individual activities under<br />

different constraints (capability, authority, and coupling<br />

constraints) in a space-time context.<br />

• Three types of constraints:<br />

Capability<br />

constraints<br />

Authority<br />

constraints<br />

Coupling<br />

constraints<br />

Physiological necessities: sleep, eat, etc.<br />

Capabilities: auto ownership, physical disability, etc.<br />

Access restrictions:<br />

restricted areas, open hours of a shopping mall, etc.<br />

Requirement of concurrence in space and time<br />

face-to-face meeting<br />

Shaw & Yu, Third ICT Meeting, Bristol, UK, March 16-19, 2008

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