Diffusing Geography Essays Presented to Peter Haggett

by Cliff, A. D.; Gould, Peter R.; Hoare, Anthony G.; Thrift, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780631195344
• ISBN10: 0631195343
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 honours. The conbributors include Richard Chorley, Peter Gould, Torsten Hagerstrand, David Harvey and R J Johnston.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Plates

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

A Celebration

Methodology

A Geographer's Guide to Dialectical Thinking

Teaching the Spatiality of Geography Concretely with the Abstract

Action in the Everyday Physical World

Locational Analysis

Revisiting the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem and the Ecological Fallacy

Computable Equilibrium and Spatial Interaction

Britain at the Heart of Europe?

Research and Rural Planning: from Howard Bracey to Discourse Analysis

Medical Geography

Estimating Epidemic Return Times

AIDS in Neighbourhoods of San Francisco: Some Geographical Observations on the First Decade of a Local-Area Epidemic: Matthew Smallman-Raynor

Spatial Point Process Modelling of Cancer Data Within a Geographical Information Systems Framework

Pacific Studies

The Shape of Tele-Cost Worlds: the Pacific Islands Case

Off the Sheep's Back? Two Decades of Change in New Zealand

List of Contributors

Author Index

Index

Related Titles: List of IBG Special Publications

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