swap_horiz Harold Brookfield Alternatives

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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

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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

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

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Denis Cosgrove

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

Cultural 20TH Century British Landscape

8.44 Great

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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

11

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

12

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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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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Stan Openshaw

Stan Openshaw was a British geographer known for advancing quantitative geography, spatial analysis, and computer-based...

20TH Century Spatial Analysis British Quantitative

8.12 Great

15

Ron Johnston

Ron Johnston was a British human geographer whose research covered electoral geography, political geography, urban socia...

20TH Century British Political Methodology

8.10 Great

16

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

17

Peter Haggett

Peter Haggett is a British geographer associated with the quantitative revolution and the development of spatial analysi...

20TH Century British Quantitative Spatial

7.86 Good

18

Bertha Becker

Bertha Becker was a Brazilian geographer recognized for research on the Amazon region, territorial development, and geop...

Amazon Development 20TH Century Geopolitics

7.80 Good

19

Melissa Leach

Melissa Leach is a British social anthropologist and development scholar whose research examines environmental change, s...

Contemporary Development British Africa

7.72 Good

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Vaughan Cornish

Vaughan Cornish was a British geographer whose research examined coastal processes, waves, beaches, and other features o...

Scenery 20TH Century British Physical

6.55 Fair