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1
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When did Harvard close the geography department?

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1948

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What did Kimble say about regional geography?

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‘regional geographers may be trying to put borders that do not exist around places that do not matter’

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What did Ackerman say about regional geography?

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It was undermining the discipline

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What did Hudson say about regional geography?

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that it was ‘intellectually limiting’

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What was the name of Schaefer’s paper and when was it published?

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‘Exceptionalism in Geography’ 1953

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How do you spell the Swedish geographer’s name?

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Hagerstrand

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Who was the German geographer who developed Central Place Theory?

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Christaller

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What was the name given to the U.S. geographers that worked with the military during WW2 and early in the cold war?

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‘Space Cadets’

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What was the name of the 5 most influential geographers at Washington?

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Hudson, Garrison, Ullman, Bunge, Morrell

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What was the name of the geographer at Iowa?

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McCarthy

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What were the names of the most influential british geographers early on during the quantitative revolution and which university did they attend?

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Chorley, Haggett, Hall. Cambridge

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What did Johnston and Sidaway 2013 say that many geographers called GIS in terms of its importance to geography as a discipline?

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the ‘saviour’

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What two things are you going to say in your introduction in the rest of the essay?

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How it changed geography and to what extent this resembles a definition

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Who did Chorley work with that aided his approach to quantitative geography?

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Royal Engineers

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Who did Hudson at Washington secure to come to the university and give talks surrounding quantitative geographers?

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Hagerstrand (and people from other disciplines)

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What did Hudson do at Washington that aided with the spreading of the methods and ideas him and his colleagues had been teaching to both their undergraduates and postgraduates?

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Worked to secure them high places at prestigious disciplines so those ideas could then be taught there

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17
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How should you end the first paragraph in to the next?

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The initial efforts made by the first generation of these quantitative geographers lead to what would become spatial analysis.

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18
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What are 6 examples of the quantitative approach in human geography’s spatial analysis?

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Quantification of CTP by Losch in 1954
Identifying trade patterns
Identifying ideal locations of agricultural activities 
Spatial Organisation of Society
Science, Measurement and Area analysis
Theoretical Geography
Social Physics School
19
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What are 4 examples of the quantitative approach in physical geography’s spatial analysis?

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Criticism of the conceptual models like WM. Davis’
‘Models in Geography’
Geomorphology & General Systems Theory
Physical Geography: A systems approach

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What were the early stages of spatial analysis characterised by?

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Delving deeper in to the places studied in reg. geog
Establishing law-like generalisations
Identifying trends and relationships using correlation and regression techniques

21
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What sort of generalisations were sought after in geography?

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those comparable to the state of water in physics (Johnston and Sidaway, 2013)

22
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Who was the very first critic of the use of quantitative methods and which university was he at that held this views while he remained head of the department?

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Carl Sauer at the University of Berkeley

23
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Who were the critics and people that raised caution about the use of quantitative methods similar to Carl Sauer?

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Harvey (1969) and Spate (1969)

24
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What lead to spatial statistics?

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Critics of its application to reality
Developments in Technology
Seeking to enhance credibility of laws

25
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What were 5 main characteristics of spatial statistics?

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  • Using technology such as remote sensing in physical - Geography to develop accurate laws
  • Using statistics to develop laws
  • Greater attention paid to the choice of techniques to represent reality
  • Greater attention paid to the impact of different areal divisions upon conclusions
  • Exploring non-linearity laws and conclusions
26
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What were two examples of an idea that went against the previous non-linear laws part of spatial statistics?

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Hay’s (1978) Catastrophe Theory and Wolpurt & Miller’s (1960) theory of geomorphic work

27
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What was an example of a statistically backed law?

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Power Laws

28
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What did behavioural geography criticise?

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The use of q. methods to explain the inextricably complex dynamics of reality. They argued that there was dramatic oversimplification of things and local factors constriants

29
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What did behavioural geography call for?

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Using quantitative techniques to organise and present occurrences rather than try and identify patterns between them

30
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What was an example of a critique made by behavioural geography regarding the importance of local factors?

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Human rationality

31
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Who were three notable practitioners of behavioural geography and what they studied?

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Wolpurt [Policy decisions a product of local compromise and constraints], Gilbert [Categorisation of Topeka residents based on their responses to floods and extreme events], Kates

32
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What was a unique aspect of behavioural geography in terms of social sciences?

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there was a lot of cross disciplinary activity with psychology and sociology

33
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What journal did the cross-disciplinary activity with psychology and sociology lead to? When was it founded?

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Environment and Planning (1969)

34
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What lead to GIS?

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Technological Developments whilst spatial statistics and laws plateaued in importance and unique insight giving rise to the need for a new area

35
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What aspect of the spatial statistics period predominantly within physical geography lead to the application of GIS within it?

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Remote Sensing

36
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When did GIS start to emerge?

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Final two decades of 20th century

37
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How would you describe GIS in terms of its relevance to the quantitative revolution?

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Rejuvenation

38
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Where were GIS technologies located?

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Geography departments such as Durham, Edinburgh and the Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis at Harvard

39
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What was so important about GIS that allowed it to grow and give geography a strong footing?

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It was regularly used by 500,000 people in 1997 both for governmental and commercial purposes.

40
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What was so exciting about GIS?

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It consisted of new multi-layered, multi and global scale data that was frequently and regularly produced.

41
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What were there calls for GIS to become and what was this epitomised by?

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A separate discipline labelled a ‘science’ due to the number of journals that were produced specific to GIS and later renamed to science

42
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What was the name of the GIS journal and what did it rename to?

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International Journal of GI’science’

43
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What did Johnston and Sidaway say many geographers labelled GIS as to the discipline?

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the ‘saviour’.

44
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What conclusion points do you reach?

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  • It was a revolution
  • New Philosophies and methods gave birth to new disciplines. As did the critique of it.
  • This allowed it to open up e.g. cross-disciplinary
    Short term impact and a lasting legacy on the geography of today and tomorrow within GIS for both human and physical geography.

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