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David Harvey

British geographer and social theorist David Harvey connects the study of cities with political economy and Marxist anal...

20TH Century Urban Critical British

9.20 Excellent

2

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

9.17 Excellent

3

Doreen Massey

For British geographer Doreen Massey, places were formed through changing social relations rather than existing as isola...

Space 20TH Century Place British

9.12 Excellent

4

Yi-Fu Tuan

Chinese American geographer Yi-Fu Tuan helped establish humanistic geography, an approach concerned with how people expe...

20TH Century Place Humanistic Chinese American

9.05 Excellent

5

Milton Santos

Milton Santos was a Brazilian geographer whose work examined territory, urbanization, economic dependency, and globaliza...

Space Development 20TH Century Brazilian

8.92 Great

6

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

8.86 Great

7

Torsten Hägerstrand

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

20TH Century Swedish Diffusion Spatial

8.78 Great

8

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

8.75 Great

9

Halford Mackinder

Halford Mackinder was a British geographer and political thinker who lived from 1861 to 1947. In his 1904 paper "The Geo...

19TH Century British Political Geopolitics

8.55 Great

10

Derek Gregory

Derek Gregory is a British geographer whose work connects human geography with colonial history, political violence, and...

Social 20TH Century Historical Postcolonial

8.48 Great

11

Denis Cosgrove

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

Cultural 20TH Century British Landscape

8.44 Great

12

Piers Blaikie

Piers Blaikie is a British geographer whose work helped establish political ecology as a field linking environmental cha...

Contemporary Development Environment British

8.36 Great

13

William Garrison

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

American 20TH Century Transportation Quantitative

8.34 Great

14

Clarence Glacken

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

American 20TH Century Environment Historical

8.30 Great

15

Josué de Castro

Josué de Castro was a Brazilian physician, geographer, writer, and public official who lived from 1908 to 1973. In works...

Development 20TH Century Political Brazilian

8.30 Great

16

Nigel Thrift

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

Social 20TH Century Urban British

8.28 Great

17

John Agnew

John Agnew is a British-American political geographer known for research on geopolitics, territory, sovereignty, and the...

20TH Century Place Political Geopolitics

8.22 Great

18

Michael Watts

Michael J. Watts is a geographer and political ecologist whose research connects agrarian change, food systems, developm...

Development 20TH Century Africa Political Economy

8.12 Great

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James Blaut

James M. Blaut was an American geographer who studied colonialism, cultural geography and the historical development of...

American Mapping Development 20TH Century

8.04 Great

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Harold Brookfield

Harold Brookfield was a geographer whose research concentrated on rural development, human-environment relations, and ag...

Development 20TH Century British Pacific

7.70 Good