This man argued for a topological understanding of geography based on movement cost-maps in a 1999 speech titled "The World is Shriveling as it Shrinks," and his recent work has been concerned with graphical representations of human migrations using so-called "flow mapping.
This man argued for a topological understanding of geography based on movement cost-maps in a 1999 speech titled "The World is Shriveling as it Shrinks," and his recent work has been concerned with graphical representations of human migrations using so-called "flow mapping." One of this man's most famous contributions was made in a paper which relied on previous work of Borchert and Deskins and the concept of spatial autocorrelation to create a growth model of a midwestern city; that paper was titled "A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region." In that paper, this man argued that "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things," a statement sometimes known as his namesake First Law of (*) Geography. For 10 points, identify this pioneering geographer at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
This man argued for a topological understanding of geography based on movement cost-maps in a 1999 speech titled "The World is Shriveling as it Shrinks," and his recent work has been concerned with graphical representations of human migrations using so-called "flow mapping.
Waldo Tobler