Jean Gottmann (1915–1994)
Auteur de Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard Of The United States
A propos de l'auteur
Jean Gottmann, one of geography's most widely known writers, received his undergraduate degree in France in 1932. In 1968 he completed his M.A. at Oxford University and received his doctorate at the University of Paris two years later. Gottmann has also served as professor emeritus at Oxford afficher plus University. Through just a few books, Gottmann has developed a set of concepts and generalizations to help understand the geography of the human landscape and has made substantial contributions in three main areas. First, his text on the geography of Europe, through several editions, remains a classic in regional geography. Second, he introduced and developed what are now fundamental concepts in modern geography---the concept of "megalopolis," especially as it applies to the northeastern United States, and the concept of "center and periphery," now known as core and periphery. Third, he addressed the growing importance of modern telecommunications in city development and examined the "transactional city." (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Jean Gottmann
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Gottmann, Ivan
- Date de naissance
- 1915-10-15
- Date de décès
- 1994-02-18
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- France
- Lieu de naissance
- Kharkov, Ukraine
- Lieu du décès
- Oxford, England, UK
- Professions
- geographer
- Organisations
- Oxford University
- Prix et distinctions
- FBA
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Membres
- 91
- Popularité
- #204,136
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 17
- Langues
- 2