This repository contains slides for a 1h. lecture to second year Geography students introducing the field of quantitative geography.
The contents heavily rely on the following publications:
- Haggett, P. 2008. "The Local Shape of Revolution: Reflections on Quantitative Geography at Cambridge in the 1950s and 1960s," Geographical Analysis, 40, 336–352.
- Murray, A. T. 2010. "Quantitative Geography," Journal of Regional Science, 50, 1, 143-163.
The network map of communities in London was produced by Ed Manley, who kindly authorized its reproduction here.
An online version of the slides is available at:
http://darribas.org/quant_geog
If you use this material, please cite it using the following reference:
@manual{doi.10.5281/zenodo.11976,
author = "Arribas-Bel, Daniel",
title = "{A 1h. lecture on Quantitative Geography for second-year
Geography students}",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.5281/zenodo.11976",
url = "{ http://darribas.org/quant_geog}",
}
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