Interview197311 min720×480

Geographers on film: Leslie J. King

National Science Foundation (u.s.)

Documentary

At the Library of Congress

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Geographers on film is a collection of recorded video interviews conducted with hundreds of geographers between August 1970 and the early 1990s, including scholars who have shaped the discipline. The interviews highlight the rapid transformations in technology throughout the 20th century that brought about vast changes in people's daily lives and in how geographers conducted research. In this interview, Leslie King discusses his education and early career. Born and educated in New Zealand, he did a joint honors in geography and history at University of Canturbury. He came to the University of Iowa to work with Harold H. McCarty, and later with Edwin Thomas. He answers questions about the quantitative revolution and central place theory and their relevance to contemporary social problems. He discusses good mathematical modeling and the ranking of theory, and the need for geography departments to stress model building and planning.

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Library of Congress, in Library of Congress
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Rights statement at the Library of Congress, as the Library of Congress states it.
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Library of Congress
Language
English
Country
United States
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