William Garrison (geographer)
- William Garrison (geographer)
William Louis Garrison (born 1924) is an American geographer and transportation analyst, currently a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of regional science. Many of his students (dubbed the "space cadets") went on to become noted professors themselves, including: Brian Berry, Ronald Boyce, Duane Marble, Richard Morrill, John Nystuen, William Bunge, Michael Dacey, Arthur Getis, and Waldo Tobler. His transportation work focuses on innovation, the deployment of modes and logistic curves, alternative vehicles and the future of the car.
Books by Garrison
* "Studies of Highway Development and Geographic Change" (with Brian Berry, Duane Marble, John Nystuen, and Richard Morrill) Greenwood Press, New York. (1959)
* "Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives" (with Jerry Ward) ISBN 1-58053-096-6 2000
* "The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment" (with David Levinson) ISBN 0-19-517250-7 2005
Important Papers
* Berry, B.. and Garrison, W. L. 1958: "The functional bases of the central place hierarchy". "Economic Geography" 34, 145 – 54.
External links
* [http://cutc.tamu.edu/awards/recipient_biographies/garrison.asp CUTC Award for Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation Education and Research 1998 (includes brief autobiographical sketch)]
* [http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/tgsg/news/ullmanaward.htm Edward L. Ullman Award 1994]
References
* Barnes, Trevor J. "Placing ideas: genius loci, heterotopia and geography’s quantitative revolution" "Progress in Human Geography" 28,5 (2004) pp. 1 – 31 [http://www.geog.ubc.ca/~tbarnes/Placing%20ideas.pdf]
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