David Pinder
Biographic Data
| ID | 75776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Pinder |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinder |
| SIGNATURE | PINDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5078-001X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 399 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Beyond the Strong Black Woman
On the necessity of theory
Responding to Robert Lake's call for readers ‘to resist the seductions and distractions of theory’, and to move from ‘knowing’ to ‘doing’, this article underlines the significance and necessity of theory for those addressing urban questions. While agreeing on the problems of some theory-driven research, and on the need to question how urban theory is produced and used, and by whom, it also emphasises how theory itself may be understood as situate…
Revolutionary times and spaces
Anniversaries, whether personal or more collective in nature, can be significant opportunities for reflecting on where we are and where we might want to head. That is even when their arbitrary nume
Situationists
The Situationist International was a revolutionary avant‐garde group active between 1957 and 1972, whose ideas and practices have proved influential and provocative in the decades since. The situationists are best known for their critique of the alienating and image‐saturated conditions of “the society of the spectacle,” as well as for their role in the movements and occupations in France of May 1968. Their theoretical perspectives owed much to M…
Mapping coastal land use changes 1965–2014
This paper describes a national analysis of coastal land use change in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It compares a survey conducted by volunteers in 1965 with the 2014 update created using digital topographic data and aerial photography in an open source GIS . The paper reviews the origins and impacts of differences in the way that land use classes are measured and reported, and highlights a generic issue when comparing thematic data. This…
Reconstituting the Possible
What roles can utopia play in contemporary critical urban studies? The concept has often been treated warily, sidelined or dismissed. Recent years, however, have seen a revival of interest, as writers, activists and artists have sought openings to urban worlds that are different and better. By returning to aspects of the urban thought and practice of Henri Lefebvre in the 1960s and early 1970s, this article challenges common understandings of uto…
Cultural Geography in Practice
Part 1: Writing Cultural Geography Chapter 1 Knowledge is Power: Using Archival REsearch to interpret State Formulation Chapter 2: The View from the Streets: Geographies of Homelessness in the British Newspaper Press Chapter 3: Secondary Worlds: Reading Novels as Geographical Research Chapter 4: Researching Bodies in Virtual Space Part 2: Living Cultural Geography Chapter 5: Home and Identity: Life Stories in Text and in Person Chapter 6: Gender …
Dis-locative arts
Questions about what it means to locate and be located are being significantly reconfigured through the digitalization of urban life and space, and as computer processing becomes embedded or ‘pervasive’ in urban environments. With position becoming increasingly automatically monitored and tracked within a standardized space and time, some critics suggest that it becomes less consciously thought about than part of a ‘technological unconscious’. Em…
Errant Paths
Walking has moved into increasing visibility in social, cultural, and geographical studies as well as art and cultural practice in recent times. Walking practices are often mobilised as a means for sensing and learning about spaces, for enabling reflection on the mutual constitution of bodies and landscapes, and for finding meaning within and potentially re-enchanting environments. Through the influence of Michel de Certeau in particular, the ide…
Urban Interventions
Challenging perspectives on the urban question have arisen in recent years from beyond academic realms through the work of artists and cultural practitioners. Often in dialogue with urban theory and political activism, and employing a range of tactical practices, they have engaged critically with cities and with the spatialities of everyday urban life. They are typically concerned less with representing political issues than with intervening in u…
Professor Mark Blacksell
Andrew Mark Yates Blacksell, a human geographer with unusually widespread interests and expertise, and a man of enormous character and warmth, died of cancer on 12 January 2008, aged 65. Mark went to Balliol College, Oxford from Barnstaple Grammar School to read geography in 1961 and stayed on to undertake doctoral research. His DPhil topic reflected the empirical regional tradition that still predominated at Oxford, notwithstanding the spatial s…
Visions of the City
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614882);Visions of the City is a dramatic account of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. Such visions, it shows, have played a crucial role in informing understandings and imaginings of the modern city. The author critically examines influenti…
Collaborative policymaking
Arts of urban exploration
This paper addresses ways in which artists and cultural practitioners have recently been using forms of urban exploration as a means of engaging with, and intervening in, cities. It takes its cues from recent events on the streets of New York that involved exploring urban spaces through artistic practices. Walks, games, investigations and mappings are discussed as manifestations of a form of 'psychogeography', and are set in the context of recent…
Commentary—Writing Cities Against the Grain
Coastal cultural heritage and sustainable development
Seaport decline and cultural heritage sustainability issues in the UK coastal zone
Cultural heritage and sustainability in the coastal zone
In defence of utopian urbanism
In defence of utopian urbanism
What is the role of utopian visions of the city today? What is their use at a time when, for many people, the very concept of utopia has come to an end? Taking a wide perspective on contemporary debates, this paper addresses the general retreat from utopian urbanism in recent years. It connects it with the so–called crisis of modernist urbanism in the capitalist West as well as forms of ‘utopic degeneration’, and assesses some of its implications…
Ghostly footsteps
This paper is concerned with urban walking and the work of contemporary artists and writers who take to the streets in order to explore, excavate and map hidden spaces and paths in the city. The focus is on an audio-walk by the Canadian artist Janet Cardiff entitled The missing voice (case study B), which is set in east London. Connections are also drawn with other recent projects in the same area by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair. The pap…
Old Paris Is No More
The term ‘spectacle’ has played an important role in recentcritical discussions of vision and visuality. In human geography it has often been used to designate new forms of capitalist urban development associated with display and show. This paper examines aspects of the term by addressing the critique of the spectacle developed by the situationist Guy Debord. It situates his writings on the subject back into the context of his engagements with th…
The New Europe
Partial table of contents: TOWARDS THE NEW EUROPE. New Europe or New Europes? East-West Development Dynamics in the Twentieth Century (D. Pinder). ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION. Europe in the World Economy (R. Gibb). Industrial Restructuring in the New Democracies (A. Dawson). Tourism and Economic Development (A. Williams & G. Shaw). Transport, Communications and European Integration (R. Vickerman). SOCIAL STRESS IN THE NEW EUROPE. Socio-Economic Chang…
Subverting Cartography
It is increasingly recognised that cartography is a contested practice, embedded within particular sets of power relations, and that maps are bound up with the production and reproduction of social life. The author begins by emphasising the importance of these issues for considering how the city has been mapped and represented through cartographic schemes, and draws on debates around the power and politics of mapping, and contentions that maps ar…
The European Investment Bank, transport investment and European Union objectives
Arts of urban exploration
This paper addresses ways in which artists and cultural practitioners have recently been using forms of urban exploration as a means of engaging with, and intervening in, cities. It takes its cues from recent events on the streets of New York that involved exploring urban spaces through artistic practices. Walks, games, investigations and mappings are discussed as manifestations of a form of 'psychogeography', and are set in the context of recent…
Errant Paths
Walking has moved into increasing visibility in social, cultural, and geographical studies as well as art and cultural practice in recent times. Walking practices are often mobilised as a means for sensing and learning about spaces, for enabling reflection on the mutual constitution of bodies and landscapes, and for finding meaning within and potentially re-enchanting environments. Through the influence of Michel de Certeau in particular, the ide…
Urban Interventions
Challenging perspectives on the urban question have arisen in recent years from beyond academic realms through the work of artists and cultural practitioners. Often in dialogue with urban theory and political activism, and employing a range of tactical practices, they have engaged critically with cities and with the spatialities of everyday urban life. They are typically concerned less with representing political issues than with intervening in u…
Collaborative policymaking
In defence of utopian urbanism
What is the role of utopian visions of the city today? What is their use at a time when, for many people, the very concept of utopia has come to an end? Taking a wide perspective on contemporary debates, this paper addresses the general retreat from utopian urbanism in recent years. It connects it with the so–called crisis of modernist urbanism in the capitalist West as well as forms of ‘utopic degeneration’, and assesses some of its implications…
Old Paris Is No More
The term ‘spectacle’ has played an important role in recentcritical discussions of vision and visuality. In human geography it has often been used to designate new forms of capitalist urban development associated with display and show. This paper examines aspects of the term by addressing the critique of the spectacle developed by the situationist Guy Debord. It situates his writings on the subject back into the context of his engagements with th…
Reconstituting the Possible
What roles can utopia play in contemporary critical urban studies? The concept has often been treated warily, sidelined or dismissed. Recent years, however, have seen a revival of interest, as writers, activists and artists have sought openings to urban worlds that are different and better. By returning to aspects of the urban thought and practice of Henri Lefebvre in the 1960s and early 1970s, this article challenges common understandings of uto…
Ghostly footsteps
This paper is concerned with urban walking and the work of contemporary artists and writers who take to the streets in order to explore, excavate and map hidden spaces and paths in the city. The focus is on an audio-walk by the Canadian artist Janet Cardiff entitled The missing voice (case study B), which is set in east London. Connections are also drawn with other recent projects in the same area by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair. The pap…
Subverting Cartography
It is increasingly recognised that cartography is a contested practice, embedded within particular sets of power relations, and that maps are bound up with the production and reproduction of social life. The author begins by emphasising the importance of these issues for considering how the city has been mapped and represented through cartographic schemes, and draws on debates around the power and politics of mapping, and contentions that maps ar…
The Nearest-Neighbor Statistic
Human behavior has spatial corollaries of great importance to both geographers and archaeologists. Some of these corollaries can be expressed as point maps, and to describe them objectively it has become common-place to employ the nearest-neighbor analysis technique devised by ecologists. But recently it has been shown that 'underestimation' is an inherent flaw of the technique. Initially, therefore, the attention of this paper focuses on elimina…
Revitalising the Waterfront
Cultural heritage and sustainability in the coastal zone
Western Europe - Challenge and Change
Western Europe in the late 20th century, the editors energy resources and dependency, P.Odell European industry and global competition, P.Dicken corporate resturcturing and spatial change, H.D.Watts small firms - phoenix from the ashes?, C.Mason & R.Harrison technological change and industrial survival, A.T.Thwaites the telecommunications revolution, A.Gillespie et al producer services and economic development, P.Daniels urban decay and rejuvenat…
Nearest‐neighbour Analysis of Linear Point Patterns
Dis-locative arts
Questions about what it means to locate and be located are being significantly reconfigured through the digitalization of urban life and space, and as computer processing becomes embedded or ‘pervasive’ in urban environments. With position becoming increasingly automatically monitored and tracked within a standardized space and time, some critics suggest that it becomes less consciously thought about than part of a ‘technological unconscious’. Em…
Waterfronts
Western Europe
Coastal cultural heritage and sustainable development
Small Firms, Regional Development and The European Investment Bank
Regional Economic Development and Policy
Mapping coastal land use changes 1965–2014
This paper describes a national analysis of coastal land use change in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It compares a survey conducted by volunteers in 1965 with the 2014 update created using digital topographic data and aerial photography in an open source GIS . The paper reviews the origins and impacts of differences in the way that land use classes are measured and reported, and highlights a generic issue when comparing thematic data. This…
Seaport decline and cultural heritage sustainability issues in the UK coastal zone
Commentary—Writing Cities Against the Grain
In defence of utopian urbanism
The European Investment Bank, transport investment and European Union objectives
Colliery Settlement in the South Wales Coalfield, 1850-1926
Nearest‐neighbour Analysis of Linear Point Patterns
The Nearest-Neighbor Statistic
Human behavior has spatial corollaries of great importance to both geographers and archaeologists. Some of these corollaries can be expressed as point maps, and to describe them objectively it has become common-place to employ the nearest-neighbor analysis technique devised by ecologists. But recently it has been shown that 'underestimation' is an inherent flaw of the technique. Initially, therefore, the attention of this paper focuses on elimina…
Regional Economic Development and Policy
Planning in Europe
Small Firms, Regional Development and The European Investment Bank
Oil Refining in the Netherlands and Belgium
1986). Oil Refining in the Netherlands and Belgium: Growth, Crisis and Restructuring. Dutch Crossing: Vol. 10, No. 30, pp. 76-92
Revitalising the Waterfront
Western Europe - Challenge and Change
Western Europe in the late 20th century, the editors energy resources and dependency, P.Odell European industry and global competition, P.Dicken corporate resturcturing and spatial change, H.D.Watts small firms - phoenix from the ashes?, C.Mason & R.Harrison technological change and industrial survival, A.T.Thwaites the telecommunications revolution, A.Gillespie et al producer services and economic development, P.Daniels urban decay and rejuvenat…
Western Europe
Crisis intensity, industrial restructuring and the transformation of West German oil refining
Waterfronts
The European Investment Bank, transport investment and European Union objectives
Subverting Cartography
It is increasingly recognised that cartography is a contested practice, embedded within particular sets of power relations, and that maps are bound up with the production and reproduction of social life. The author begins by emphasising the importance of these issues for considering how the city has been mapped and represented through cartographic schemes, and draws on debates around the power and politics of mapping, and contentions that maps ar…
The New Europe
Partial table of contents: TOWARDS THE NEW EUROPE. New Europe or New Europes? East-West Development Dynamics in the Twentieth Century (D. Pinder). ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION. Europe in the World Economy (R. Gibb). Industrial Restructuring in the New Democracies (A. Dawson). Tourism and Economic Development (A. Williams & G. Shaw). Transport, Communications and European Integration (R. Vickerman). SOCIAL STRESS IN THE NEW EUROPE. Socio-Economic Chang…
Old Paris Is No More
The term ‘spectacle’ has played an important role in recentcritical discussions of vision and visuality. In human geography it has often been used to designate new forms of capitalist urban development associated with display and show. This paper examines aspects of the term by addressing the critique of the spectacle developed by the situationist Guy Debord. It situates his writings on the subject back into the context of his engagements with th…
Ghostly footsteps
This paper is concerned with urban walking and the work of contemporary artists and writers who take to the streets in order to explore, excavate and map hidden spaces and paths in the city. The focus is on an audio-walk by the Canadian artist Janet Cardiff entitled The missing voice (case study B), which is set in east London. Connections are also drawn with other recent projects in the same area by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair. The pap…
In defence of utopian urbanism
In defence of utopian urbanism
What is the role of utopian visions of the city today? What is their use at a time when, for many people, the very concept of utopia has come to an end? Taking a wide perspective on contemporary debates, this paper addresses the general retreat from utopian urbanism in recent years. It connects it with the so–called crisis of modernist urbanism in the capitalist West as well as forms of ‘utopic degeneration’, and assesses some of its implications…
Coastal cultural heritage and sustainable development
Seaport decline and cultural heritage sustainability issues in the UK coastal zone
Cultural heritage and sustainability in the coastal zone
Commentary—Writing Cities Against the Grain
Visions of the City
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748614882);Visions of the City is a dramatic account of utopian urbanism in the twentieth century. It explores radical demands for new spaces and ways of living, and considers their effects on planning, architecture and struggles to shape urban landscapes. Such visions, it shows, have played a crucial role in informing understandings and imaginings of the modern city. The author critically examines influenti…
Collaborative policymaking
Political science (22 works) · Geography (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Aesthetics (12 works) · Art (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works)