Diffusing Geography

Essays Presented to Peter Haggett
Herausgeber: Cliff, A D; Thrift, Nigel; Hoare, Anthony G; Gould, Peter R

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Produktbeschreibung

A volume celebrating the work of the twentieth century's leading geographer should in itself be an event of importance for the discipline. This book lives up to that ambition, for in its quality, breadth and originality it reflects the attributes of the man it honors. Peter Haggett's contribution to geography, in a career which has spanned more than 30 years, has been to retain a notion of the discipline as a whole with its own outlook and methods. This book examines his role in the development of such areas as geographical methodology, locational analysis, medical geography, studies of the Pacific Basin, and geography in higher education, which together reflect his unique overview and ability to further a varied but unified view of geography throughout his work. The essays offer an illuminating multiplicity of approaches, subject matter, and informing preconceptions, yet all in their different ways touch upon and celebrate themes in the life of Peter Haggett himself. Essays in this volume will be welcomed not only to those already familiar with Peter Haggett's work itself, but also those interested in the future of the discipline as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 964g
• ISBN-13: 9780631195344
• ISBN-10: 0631195343
• Artikelnr.: 23832847

Autorenporträt

P. R. Gould is Evan Pugh Professor of Geography at the University of Lancaster. A. D. Cliff is University Reader in Theoretical Geography and Fellow of Christ's College and the University of Cambridge. A. G. Hoare is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Bristol. N. Thrift is Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates.
List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Acknowledgements.
A Celebration.
Part I: Methodology: .
1. A Geographer's Guide to Dialectical Thinking: David Harvey (Johns
Hopkins University, USA).
2. Teaching the Spatiality of Geography Concretely with the Abstract: Peter
Gould (The Pennsylvania State University, USA).
3. Action in the Everyday Physical World: Torsten Hagerstrand (Lund
University, Sweden).
Part II: Locational Analysis:.
4. Revisiting the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and the Ecological Fallacy:
Neil Wrigley (University of Southampton, UK).
5. Computable Equilibrium and Spatial Interaction: Bill Macmillan
(University of Oxford, UK).
6. Britain at the Heart of Europe?: Michael Chisholm (University of
Cambridge, UK).
7. Research and Rural Planning: from Howard Bracey to Discourse Analysis:
Paul Cloke (University of Bristol, UK).
Part III: Medical Geography:.
8. Estimating Epidemic Return Times: Andrew Cliff (University of Cambridge,
UK) and Keith Ord (The Pennsylvania State University, USA).
9. AIDS in Neighbourhoods of San Francisco: Some Geographical Observations
on the First Decade of a Local-Area Epidemic: Matthew Smallman-Raynor
(University of Exeter, UK).
10. Spatial Point Process Modelling of Cancer Data Within a Geographical
Information Systems Framework: Anthony Gatrell (Lancaster University, UK).
Part IV: Pacific Studies: .
11. The Shape of Tele-Cost Worlds: the Pacific Islands Case: R. Gerard Ward
(Australian National University, Australia).
12. Off the Sheep's Back? Two Decades of Change in New Zealand: Pip Forer
(University of Canterbury, New Zealand).
List of Contributors.
Author Index.
Index.
Related Titles: List of IBG Special Publications.