biography
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Geographer, born in Gillingham, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, taught at Bristol University (1961–9), was professor of geography at Johns Hopkins University (1969–86), and professor at Oxford (1987–93), returning to Johns Hopkins as professor of geography and environmental engineering in 1993. He was a founder member of the so-called ‘positivist’ school, and his book, Explanation in Geography (1969), was regarded by adherents of that school as the fundamental reference. He has subsequently become one of its major critics, and his advocacy of ‘radical’ geography (in which the subject is viewed as a tool of social revolution) crystallized in his book Social Justice and the City (1973). |
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