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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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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

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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

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Milton Santos

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Space Development 20TH Century Brazilian

8.92 Great

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Walter Christaller

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German 20TH Century Urban Spatial

8.86 Great

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Torsten Hägerstrand

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20TH Century Swedish Diffusion Spatial

8.78 Great

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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

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Denis Cosgrove

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Cultural 20TH Century British Landscape

8.44 Great

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Jamie Peck

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Contemporary Urban Economic British Canadian

8.44 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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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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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

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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

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American Cultural 20TH Century Urban

7.86 Good

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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

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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

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Don Parkes

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Australian 20TH Century Urban Quantitative

6.82 Fair