swap_horiz Torsten Hägerstrand 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

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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

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

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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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William Garrison

William L. Garrison was an American geographer associated with the quantitative revolution that transformed academic geo...

American 20TH Century Transportation Quantitative

8.34 Great

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Clarence Glacken

Clarence J. Glacken was an American geographer and historian of ideas whose scholarship examined changing conceptions of...

American 20TH Century Environment Historical

8.30 Great

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August Lösch

August Lösch was a German economist whose work examined how economic activity is distributed across geographic space. In...

German 20TH Century Spatial Economic

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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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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Roger Brunet

Roger Brunet is a French geographer associated with regional analysis, spatial modeling, and cartographic communication....

French 20TH Century Regional Spatial

7.70 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

7.58 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

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