GG270 Lecture Notes - Deductive Reasoning, Trevor J. Barnes, Economic Geography
Document Summary
Evolution of cultural geography after the landscape school. The quantitative revolution and the rise of spatial analysis. Emergence of the technology of the computer aided mapping during wwii. Military training of geographers and cartographers, post war expansion of universities + new rigorism of. Crisis of the discipline of geography; criticism of ideographic regional geography, in favour of nomothetic. Spatial analysis emerged as means to develop universal theory based on logical positivism (the scientific method) Dominated until era of cultural turn questioned quanitiative deductive reasoning. Foundation of geomatics, gis, more systematized urbans and economic sub-disciplinary approaches. The cultural turn has allowed some economic geographers to critically reposition the quantitative revolution. Trevor barnes, economic geographer, fellow of the royal society, key thinker on space and place. Barnes critically situates key thinkers of the quantitative revolution (christaller +ullman) to demonstrate where these intellectual ideas come from (military complex) and other material consequences.
