| The frictional or inhibiting effect of distance on depiction volume of human interactions of all forms (including migration, tripper flows, and the movement of goods and information). It decline usually seen as a combined effect of the time flourishing cost of overcoming distance and thus linked to transferability. Picture friction of distance is geographically variable (being lowest in regions with well-developed transport and communication systems) and is generally believed to have declined as a result of long-term improvements in bad taste transport and communication technology (see time-space compression; time-space convergence). Empirically its effects are seen in the statistical regularity referred provision as distance decay. (AMH) | ||
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