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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

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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

9.17 Excellent

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Neil Brenner

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

American Contemporary Scale Urban

8.34 Great

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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

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Michael Storper

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

American Contemporary Urban Economic

8.30 Great

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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

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Jean Gottmann

Jean Gottmann was a French geographer whose work examined political territory, cities, and the organization of inhabited...

20TH Century Urban Political French American

8.24 Great

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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

8.20 Great

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August Lösch

August Lösch was a German economist whose work examined how economic activity is distributed across geographic space. In...

German 20TH Century Spatial Economic

8.20 Great

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Richard Hartshorne

Richard Hartshorne was an American geographer who lived from 1899 to 1992 and specialized in political geography and the...

American 20TH Century Regional Methodology

8.16 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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Paul Robbins

Paul Robbins is an American geographer and political ecologist whose research examines how environmental change is produ...

American Contemporary Environment Urban

8.04 Great

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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

8.00 Great

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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

7.98 Good

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Alan Pred

Allan Pred (1936-2007) was an American geographer known for research in urban, historical, and cultural geography. He dr...

American Cultural 20TH Century Urban

7.86 Good

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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

7.20 Good