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Carl Ortwin Sauer

Carl Ortwin Sauer was an American geographer whose work helped establish the Berkeley School of cultural geography. In h...

American Cultural 20TH Century Landscape

9.2 Excellent

2

David Harvey

David Harvey is a British geographer and social theorist whose work connects urbanization, political economy, and Marxis...

20TH Century Urban Critical British

9.2 Excellent

3

Walter Christaller

Walter Christaller was a German geographer, born in 1893 and deceased in 1969, best known for formulating central place...

German 20TH Century Urban Spatial

8.9 Great

4

Torsten Hägerstrand

Torsten Hagerstrand was a Swedish geographer whose research reshaped the study of migration, innovation diffusion, and h...

20TH Century Swedish Diffusion Spatial

8.8 Great

5

Neil Smith

Neil Smith was a Scottish-born geographer who worked in the United States and wrote about capitalism, cities, nature, an...

Scale 20TH Century Urban Marxist

8.8 Great

6

Denis Cosgrove

Denis Cosgrove was a British cultural geographer whose research examined landscape, visual representation, cartography,...

Cultural 20TH Century British Landscape

8.4 Great

7

William Garrison

William L. Garrison was an American geographer associated with the quantitative revolution that transformed academic geo...

American 20TH Century Transportation Quantitative

8.3 Great

8

Nigel Thrift

Nigel Thrift is a British geographer and social theorist associated with the development of non-representational theory....

Social 20TH Century Urban British

8.3 Great

9

Clarence Glacken

Clarence J. Glacken was an American geographer and historian of ideas whose scholarship examined changing conceptions of...

American 20TH Century Environment Historical

8.3 Great

10

Neil Brenner

Neil Brenner is an American urban theorist and geographer whose research examines urbanization, political economy, state...

American Contemporary Scale Urban

8.3 Great

11

Michael Storper

Michael Storper is an economic geographer whose research examines cities, regional development, industrial organization,...

American Contemporary Urban Economic

8.3 Great

12

Brian Berry

Brian J. L. Berry is a British-born American geographer associated with the quantitative transformation of geography dur...

American 20TH Century Urban Quantitative

8.2 Great

13

Edward Soja

Edward Soja was an American urban geographer and social theorist whose work emphasized the importance of space in unders...

American 20TH Century Urban Postmodern

8.1 Great

14

Edward Ullman

Edward Ullman was an American geographer who lived from 1912 to 1976 and contributed to urban, economic, and transportat...

American 20TH Century Urban Transportation

8.0 Great

15

Wilbur Zelinsky

Wilbur Zelinsky was an American cultural and population geographer who lived from 1921 to 2013 and taught for much of hi...

American Cultural 20TH Century Demographic

8.0 Great

16

Don Mitchell

Don Mitchell is an American geographer known for work in cultural geography, labor geography, and the study of public sp...

American Cultural 20TH Century Landscape

7.8 Good

17

Peirce Lewis

Peirce F. Lewis was an American cultural geographer known for treating ordinary built landscapes as evidence of social v...

Reading American Cultural 20TH Century

7.5 Good

18

Richard Morrill

Richard Morrill was an American geographer and longtime professor at the University of Washington who specialized in qua...

American 20TH Century Urban Spatial

7.2 Good

19

Marvin Mikesell

American cultural geographer associated with the Berkeley school who contributed to landscape studies and the cross-cult...

American Cultural 20TH Century Landscape

7.0 Good

20

Don Parkes

Australian geographer known for time geography research, co-authoring Times, Spaces, and Places: A Chronogeographic Pers...

Australian 20TH Century Urban Quantitative

6.8 Fair