swap_horiz Milton Santos Alternatives

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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

Doreen Massey

Doreen Massey was a British geographer whose work reshaped debates about space, place, globalization, and regional inequ...

Space 20TH Century Place British

9.1 Excellent

4

Yi-Fu Tuan

Yi-Fu Tuan was a Chinese American geographer whose work helped establish humanistic geography, an approach concerned wit...

20TH Century Place Humanistic Chinese American

9.1 Excellent

5

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

6

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

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

8.8 Great

8

Derek Gregory

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

Social 20TH Century Historical Postcolonial

8.5 Great

9

Denis Cosgrove

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

Cultural 20TH Century British Landscape

8.4 Great

10

Piers Blaikie

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

Contemporary Development Environment British

8.4 Great

11

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

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

8.3 Great

13

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

14

Katherine McKittrick

Katherine McKittrick is a Canadian scholar whose work connects Black studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, and hum...

Contemporary Canadian Space Race

8.3 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

8.3 Great

16

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

8.1 Great

17

James Blaut

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

American Mapping Development 20TH Century

8.0 Great

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

7.8 Good

19

Harold Brookfield

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

Development 20TH Century British Pacific

7.7 Good

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Gunnar Olsson

Gunnar Olsson is a Swedish geographer whose work examines the philosophical foundations of geography, spatial reasoning,...

Philosophy Space 20TH Century Critical

7.6 Good