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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

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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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Paul Vidal de la Blache

Paul Vidal de la Blache was a French geographer who lived from 1845 to 1918 and played a central role in establishing ac...

French 19TH Century Regional Human

9.02 Excellent

6

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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Carl Ritter

Carl Ritter was a German geographer whose work helped establish geography as a modern academic discipline during the 19t...

German 19TH Century Regional Human

8.83 Great

9

Élisée Reclus

Élisée Reclus was a French geographer, writer, and anarchist who lived from 1830 to 1905. He wrote the 19 volume Nouvell...

French 19TH Century Regional Human

8.80 Great

10

Torsten Hägerstrand

Torsten Hagerstrand was a Swedish geographer whose research reshaped the study of migration, innovation diffusion, and h...

20TH Century Swedish Diffusion Spatial

8.78 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

12

Al-Muqaddasi

Al-Muqaddasi was a tenth-century Arab geographer, probably born around 945 in Jerusalem, whose travels covered much of t...

Medieval Regional Islamic Arab

8.61 Great

13

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

14

Richard Hartshorne

Richard Hartshorne was an American geographer who lived from 1899 to 1992 and specialized in political geography and the...

American 20TH Century Regional Methodology

8.16 Great

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

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

17

Alfred Hettner

Alfred Hettner was a German geographer who lived from 1859 to 1941 and became an important advocate of chorology, the st...

German 20TH Century Regional Methodology

7.62 Good

18

Preston James

Preston James was an American geographer who lived from 1899 to 1986. He authored the regional study "Latin America" in...

American 20TH Century Regional Latin America

7.38 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

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Ellsworth Huntington

Ellsworth Huntington was an American geographer whose work examined relationships among climate, environment, population...

American 20TH Century Environment Climate

5.72 Mediocre