Glennie, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001 1.3 Time–space Compression It is in the inherent mobility and speed of such possible actions that time–space compression challenges any attempts to define the time–space nature of society too rigidly. The ability of capital to shift resources to different places easily, and often with impunity to the disruption of life at the local scale, suggests that time-space compression may denigrate the importance of place in human society.

Furthermore, in Harvey's interpretation, the transcendence of global capital over local domains thrives on shortened time horizons and on the ability to eradicate distance as an inhibitor to exchange and dominance. Use of the term compression captures the general speeding up of all kinds of events that intensify the turnover of capital and that implode on human existence as substantive levels of stress. Though annihilation of space through time is analogous to time–space convergence, the broad implications of compression may be less amenable to direct measurement. This is brought about by attempts within Capitalism to extract as much surplus value per unit of time as possible. Harvey advances the notion of time–space compression and provides a compelling rationale for imbuing time–space with social content and experiential meaning. Janelle, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001 4 Time–Space Compression The challenge for researchers is to incorporate these ideas within more formal modeling frameworks, be they agent-based models, time geography, or dynamic systems approaches.ĭ.G. They offer insight on how the individual fits within the broader system of time–space structures. The concepts of convergence, extensibility, distanciation, and compression are all central to understanding the time–space context of human activities and the systems in which they take place. This notion adds the dimension of experiential meaning associated with the annihilation of space through time. It links a process of accumulation in the Marxian sense with the daily lives of people, with the appreciation of some places over others, and with the resulting enlargement in disparities among regions. David Harvey pioneered this idea based on the intensification of events per unit of time and per unit of space.

Time–space compression is another dimension to the collapse of space through time. Janelle, in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 2005 Time–Space Compression

Space in time that connot be explained