The quantitative revolution in urban geography.

Part of a special issue on urban geography in the 1960s. Despite advances in the quantitative revolution in human geography in the 1960s and early 1970s, the results of the revolution fell short of their promise as new ideas, new approaches, and methods. Had geography been better represented in th...

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Publicado en:Urban Geography Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 530 - 540
Autor principal: Adams, John M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Bellwether Publishing Ltd. August 16-September 30 2001
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Sumario:Part of a special issue on urban geography in the 1960s. Despite advances in the quantitative revolution in human geography in the 1960s and early 1970s, the results of the revolution fell short of their promise as new ideas, new approaches, and methods. Had geography been better represented in the National Academy of Sciences and in fully-fledged departments of geography within America's major private research universities, the prominence, volume, and influence of research might have been more notable.