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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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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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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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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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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

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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Michael Batty

Michael Batty is a British geographer and urban planner known for using mathematical models, computation, and complexity...

Simulation Contemporary Urban British

8.40 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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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

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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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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

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Ash Amin

Ash Amin is a British geographer and social scientist known for research on cities, economic geography and multicultural...

Contemporary Social Urban British

8.04 Great

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Gill Valentine

Gill Valentine is a British human geographer whose research examines sexuality, identity, social difference, childhood,...

Food Contemporary Social British

8.02 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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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

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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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Paul Longley

Paul Longley is a British geographer whose research concerns geographic information science, geodemographics, urban anal...

Contemporary Urban British Gis

7.86 Good

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Harold Brookfield

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

Development 20TH Century British Pacific

7.70 Good

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Jacques Lévy

Jacques Lévy is a French geographer and social scientist whose research examines cities, spatial organization, mobility,...

French Contemporary Europe Social

7.46 Good