方法对比

	Time Geography Analysis	Space-Time Cube
领域	Human Geography	Human Geography
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	1970	1970
提出者	Torsten Hägerstrand	Torsten Hägerstrand (time geography); cube popularized by Menno-Jan Kraak
类型	Framework for representing individual movement and constraints in space and time	Spatiotemporal data structure and visualization framework
开创性文献	Hägerstrand, T. (1970). What about people in regional science? Papers of the Regional Science Association, 24(1), 6–21.	Hägerstrand, T. (1970). What about people in regional science? Papers of the Regional Science Association, 24(1), 6–21.
别名	Hägerstrand Time Geography, Space-Time Path Analysis, Space-Time Prism Analysis, Time-Space Geography	Hägerstrand Space-Time Cube, Space-Time Aquarium, Spatiotemporal Cube, Time-Geographic Cube
相关	4	4
摘要	Time geography is a framework, introduced by Torsten Hägerstrand in 1970, that represents human activity as continuous trajectories through a joint space-time coordinate system rather than as static points on a map. Each individual traces a space-time path through the 'space-time aquarium', and the set of all locations that can be reached and returned from within a time budget forms a space-time prism, whose spatial footprint is the potential path area. The framework grounds accessibility and mobility in the inescapable fact that people can be in only one place at a time and that movement consumes both space and time.	The space-time cube is a framework from time geography for representing and analyzing phenomena that move and change over both space and time. Two horizontal axes carry geographic location and a vertical axis carries time, so each observation becomes a point in a three-dimensional x–y–t volume and a moving object traces a continuous 'space-time path' through the cube. Introduced conceptually by Torsten Hägerstrand in 1970 and turned into a practical analytic and cartographic tool by Menno-Jan Kraak, it underpins modern spatiotemporal hot-spot and trajectory analysis.