swap_horiz Jean Gottmann 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

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

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

8.12 Great

13

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

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

7.98 Good

15

Harm de Blij

Harm de Blij was a Dutch-born American geographer, writer, and television commentator who specialized in regional and po...

Popular 20TH Century Political Regional

7.92 Good

16

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

17

Kevin Cox

Kevin Cox is a British-American geographer and academic associated with Ohio State University, where he has contributed...

Contemporary Scale Urban Political

7.32 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

7.20 Good

19

Don Parkes

Don Parkes is an Australian geographer associated with time geography, a field that studies how movement and activity ar...

Australian 20TH Century Urban Quantitative

6.82 Fair

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Diarmuid Maguire

Political geographer whose research examines social movements, contentious politics, and the spatial dimensions of colle...

Contemporary Urban Political Irish

5.92 Mediocre