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Following his Ph.D., Ley taught at the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, where he served as department head between 2009 and 2011. He was the first Co-Director of the Vancouver Centre of the Canadian Metropolis project. In 1976, Ley and Marywan Samuals published a volume of essays entitled Humanistic Geography.
David Howard Kaplan is an American geographer, academic, and author.He is a professor of geography at Kent State University. [1]Kaplan is an author/editor of over a dozen books, including Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy; Urban Geography; Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale; Human Geography; and Navigating Ethnicity: Segregation, Place Making, and Difference.
David William Harvey FBA (born 31 October 1935) is a British-American academic best known for Marxist analyses that focus on urban geography as well as the economy more broadly. He is a Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York ( CUNY ).
David Seamon (born 14 April 1948) [1] is an American geographer, phenomenologist, author and academic. Seamon in known for his work on the theory of architectural phenomenology , [ 2 ] environmental phenomenology, and environmental design as placemaking .
David Hooson described the book as a timely exploration of how humanity has conceptualized distinct regions since classical times. Hooson highlighted the book's emphasis on questioning age-old assumptions and reexamining global schemes proposed by scholars like Arnold Toynbee, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Samuel Huntington. The authors' focus on ...
Carl Ortwin Sauer (December 24, 1889 – July 18, 1975) was an American geographer.Sauer was a professor of geography at the University of California at Berkeley from 1923 until becoming professor emeritus in 1957.
William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 – February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography". He was born into a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the women's advocate ...
classroom teacher for middle and high school English, geography and social studies; children's author; educational consultant; Language: English: Notable works: If the World Were a Village: A Book about the World's People: Notable awards: 1992 U.S. Department of Education's "A+ for Breaking the Mold" Award for his work: Website; www.mapping.com ...