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David Harvey

David Harvey is a British geographer and social theorist whose work connects urbanization, political economy, and Marxis...

20TH Century Urban Critical British

9.20 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

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

Space 20TH Century Place British

9.12 Excellent

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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

9.05 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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Halford Mackinder

Halford Mackinder was a British geographer and political thinker who lived from 1861 to 1947. In his 1904 paper "The Geo...

19TH Century British Political Geopolitics

8.55 Great

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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

8.30 Great

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Edward Relph

Edward Relph is a Canadian geographer associated with humanistic geography and the phenomenological study of place. His...

20TH Century Place Humanistic Phenomenology

8.24 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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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

8.12 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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Yves Lacoste

Yves Lacoste is a French geographer known for helping reestablish geopolitics as a field of public and academic analysis...

French Contemporary Critical Political

8.10 Great

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Tim Cresswell

Tim Cresswell is a British geographer whose research focuses on place, mobility, and the geographical organization of so...

Contemporary Cultural Place British American

8.00 Great

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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

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Robert Sack

Robert David Sack is an American geographer whose scholarship examines territoriality, place, and the ways people organi...

American 20TH Century Place Human

7.92 Good

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Bertha Becker

Bertha Becker was a Brazilian geographer recognized for research on the Amazon region, territorial development, and geop...

Amazon Development 20TH Century Geopolitics

7.80 Good

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Matthew Sparke

Matthew Sparke is a geographer whose research connects globalization, borders, geopolitics, political economy, and publi...

Health Contemporary Geopolitics Globalization

7.62 Good

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Colin Flint

Colin Flint is an American political geographer and academic known for his extensive research on geopolitics, world-syst...

Contemporary Political Geopolitics Conflict

7.34 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