Douglas Pocock
Biographic Data
| ID | 149497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Pocock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Pocock |
| SIGNATURE | POCOCK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Some reflections on World Heritage
This paper presents some initial reflections on the emergence of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, the significance of the appellation ‘world’ and the interpretation of ‘heritage’. The dichotomous definition of heritage has found decreasing support in practice and occasioned changes in the original Operational Guidelines for implementing the Convention
Place Evocation: The Galilee Chapel in Durham Cathedral
Classics in human geography revisited: Tuan, Y.-F. 1974: Topophilia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Catherine Cookson Country: Tourist Expectation and Experience
The paper reports the experience of tourists on organised group travel to Catherine Cookson Country, a newly-created image-region on South Tyneside, based around Britain's most popular fiction writer whose novels are all set in the area. Visitor expectation is largely realised, for a majority of tourists are Cookson readers and group travel to Tyneside has further bonded them in a spirit of pilgrimage. A Cookson Trail with directed viewing and co…
Sound and the Geographer
Geography and literature
Feelings about Mapping Feelings
The recent paper by Spencer and Dixon (1983) reports the successful application of Wood's experimental mapping language, Environmental A, for capturing feelings and impressions about the urban environment. Several cautionary comments may be made on the authors' advocacy of wider use of the technique' in perception studies so that the empirical tradition may begin to 'incorporate aspects of the humanistic-phenomenological approach' (p. 382). First…
Humanistic Geography and Literature: Essays on the Experience of Place
Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography
Valued Landscape in Memory: The View from Prebends' Bridge
The memory of the classical view from Prebends' Bridge was tested in two stages of introspection by respondents after their departure from Durham, one in anticipating their photograph in sketch-form, then later in reacting to sketch and photograph in relation to the view as remembered. The reconstruction in memory, which retained some items 'larger than life' while reducing or omitting others, was preferred to the reproduction by camera. The memo…
Humanistic Geography and Literature. Essays on the Experience of Place
Sight and Knowledge
Sight is our dominant sense modality in the acquisition of environmental knowledge. Cultural, personal and academic contexts, however, mean that the relationship between sight and knowledge is reciprocal and ambivalent in nature. A wide variety of examples illustrate how knowledge both widens and narrows vision. Mode of explanation and ordering of knowledge, though embedded in previous conceptions, rely heavily on insight and current perception. …
Place and the Novelist
Novelists in their autobiographical and imaginative writings illuminate various aspects of the mutual inter- action between man and environment. Early or home place, with its formative and restorative qualities, has at the same time an ambiguity such that it exists in dialectical relationship to subsequent place. In the symbiotic relationship between man and environment, place may be considered as people, and people as place. Time is crucial to t…
The Novelist's Image of the North
A review of the English novel since the second quarter of the nineteenth century reveals that the location of the North is more a geographical expression than a precise location. The elements constituting the North, however, have been consistently projected and are largely akin to those forming the 'popular' image-a harsh landscape and climate; an often smoke-obscured land of mines or manufacturing; a substandard environment for both residence an…
Images of the Urban Environment
Some Characteristics of Mental Maps: An Empirical Study
This paper reports on a mental mapping exercise on Durham city undertaken by three population samples- residents, visitors and summer tourists. A classification of map styles by Appleyard is applied and amended; map complexity is strongly related to sex, class and familiarity with the city. Tendency to 'good figure' also shows a positive correlation with these variables. Nearly two-thirds of the maps adopt a non-conventional orientation, for whic…
Environmental Perception Process and Product
Urban Environmental Perception and Behaviour
Methods of Deriving Multi-Factor Uniform Regions
This paper introduces a new method of obtaining multifactor uniform regions. Those fusion techniques such as 'centroid' and 'group average', which are based on the imposition of minimum-variance constraints, may well generate artificial classifications, while the step-wise clustering procedure and its corresponding dendrogram facility is inefficient when dealing with large data sets. The new method, termed the dense-space method, searches initial…
Specialized Industrial Towns as Service Centres: A Comparison of Scunthorpe and Corby
THE ADVENT of iron-ore quarrying, pig-iron production and then steel making in the northern parts of Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire has found expression in these counties in the creation of two new towns, Scunthorpe and Corby. The two towns are the only two centres of iron and steel production located on home orefields, and are currently producing one-fifth of Britain's pig-iron and one-seventh of the national steel output.1 The many similarit…
Some Features of the Population of Corby New Town
Some Characteristics of Mental Maps: An Empirical Study
This paper reports on a mental mapping exercise on Durham city undertaken by three population samples- residents, visitors and summer tourists. A classification of map styles by Appleyard is applied and amended; map complexity is strongly related to sex, class and familiarity with the city. Tendency to 'good figure' also shows a positive correlation with these variables. Nearly two-thirds of the maps adopt a non-conventional orientation, for whic…
Humanistic Geography and Literature. Essays on the Experience of Place
Place and the Novelist
Novelists in their autobiographical and imaginative writings illuminate various aspects of the mutual inter- action between man and environment. Early or home place, with its formative and restorative qualities, has at the same time an ambiguity such that it exists in dialectical relationship to subsequent place. In the symbiotic relationship between man and environment, place may be considered as people, and people as place. Time is crucial to t…
Geography and literature
Catherine Cookson Country: Tourist Expectation and Experience
The paper reports the experience of tourists on organised group travel to Catherine Cookson Country, a newly-created image-region on South Tyneside, based around Britain's most popular fiction writer whose novels are all set in the area. Visitor expectation is largely realised, for a majority of tourists are Cookson readers and group travel to Tyneside has further bonded them in a spirit of pilgrimage. A Cookson Trail with directed viewing and co…
The Novelist's Image of the North
A review of the English novel since the second quarter of the nineteenth century reveals that the location of the North is more a geographical expression than a precise location. The elements constituting the North, however, have been consistently projected and are largely akin to those forming the 'popular' image-a harsh landscape and climate; an often smoke-obscured land of mines or manufacturing; a substandard environment for both residence an…
Sound and the Geographer
Images of the Urban Environment
Classics in human geography revisited: Tuan, Y.-F. 1974: Topophilia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Some reflections on World Heritage
This paper presents some initial reflections on the emergence of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, the significance of the appellation ‘world’ and the interpretation of ‘heritage’. The dichotomous definition of heritage has found decreasing support in practice and occasioned changes in the original Operational Guidelines for implementing the Convention
Sight and Knowledge
Sight is our dominant sense modality in the acquisition of environmental knowledge. Cultural, personal and academic contexts, however, mean that the relationship between sight and knowledge is reciprocal and ambivalent in nature. A wide variety of examples illustrate how knowledge both widens and narrows vision. Mode of explanation and ordering of knowledge, though embedded in previous conceptions, rely heavily on insight and current perception. …
Valued Landscape in Memory: The View from Prebends' Bridge
The memory of the classical view from Prebends' Bridge was tested in two stages of introspection by respondents after their departure from Durham, one in anticipating their photograph in sketch-form, then later in reacting to sketch and photograph in relation to the view as remembered. The reconstruction in memory, which retained some items 'larger than life' while reducing or omitting others, was preferred to the reproduction by camera. The memo…
Place Evocation: The Galilee Chapel in Durham Cathedral
Methods of Deriving Multi-Factor Uniform Regions
This paper introduces a new method of obtaining multifactor uniform regions. Those fusion techniques such as 'centroid' and 'group average', which are based on the imposition of minimum-variance constraints, may well generate artificial classifications, while the step-wise clustering procedure and its corresponding dendrogram facility is inefficient when dealing with large data sets. The new method, termed the dense-space method, searches initial…
Environmental Perception Process and Product
Urban Environmental Perception and Behaviour
Feelings about Mapping Feelings
The recent paper by Spencer and Dixon (1983) reports the successful application of Wood's experimental mapping language, Environmental A, for capturing feelings and impressions about the urban environment. Several cautionary comments may be made on the authors' advocacy of wider use of the technique' in perception studies so that the empirical tradition may begin to 'incorporate aspects of the humanistic-phenomenological approach' (p. 382). First…
Humanistic Geography and Literature: Essays on the Experience of Place
Specialized Industrial Towns as Service Centres: A Comparison of Scunthorpe and Corby
THE ADVENT of iron-ore quarrying, pig-iron production and then steel making in the northern parts of Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire has found expression in these counties in the creation of two new towns, Scunthorpe and Corby. The two towns are the only two centres of iron and steel production located on home orefields, and are currently producing one-fifth of Britain's pig-iron and one-seventh of the national steel output.1 The many similarit…
Some Features of the Population of Corby New Town
Specialized Industrial Towns as Service Centres: A Comparison of Scunthorpe and Corby
THE ADVENT of iron-ore quarrying, pig-iron production and then steel making in the northern parts of Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire has found expression in these counties in the creation of two new towns, Scunthorpe and Corby. The two towns are the only two centres of iron and steel production located on home orefields, and are currently producing one-fifth of Britain's pig-iron and one-seventh of the national steel output.1 The many similarit…
Methods of Deriving Multi-Factor Uniform Regions
This paper introduces a new method of obtaining multifactor uniform regions. Those fusion techniques such as 'centroid' and 'group average', which are based on the imposition of minimum-variance constraints, may well generate artificial classifications, while the step-wise clustering procedure and its corresponding dendrogram facility is inefficient when dealing with large data sets. The new method, termed the dense-space method, searches initial…
Urban Environmental Perception and Behaviour
Environmental Perception Process and Product
Some Characteristics of Mental Maps: An Empirical Study
This paper reports on a mental mapping exercise on Durham city undertaken by three population samples- residents, visitors and summer tourists. A classification of map styles by Appleyard is applied and amended; map complexity is strongly related to sex, class and familiarity with the city. Tendency to 'good figure' also shows a positive correlation with these variables. Nearly two-thirds of the maps adopt a non-conventional orientation, for whic…
Images of the Urban Environment
The Novelist's Image of the North
A review of the English novel since the second quarter of the nineteenth century reveals that the location of the North is more a geographical expression than a precise location. The elements constituting the North, however, have been consistently projected and are largely akin to those forming the 'popular' image-a harsh landscape and climate; an often smoke-obscured land of mines or manufacturing; a substandard environment for both residence an…
Sight and Knowledge
Sight is our dominant sense modality in the acquisition of environmental knowledge. Cultural, personal and academic contexts, however, mean that the relationship between sight and knowledge is reciprocal and ambivalent in nature. A wide variety of examples illustrate how knowledge both widens and narrows vision. Mode of explanation and ordering of knowledge, though embedded in previous conceptions, rely heavily on insight and current perception. …
Place and the Novelist
Novelists in their autobiographical and imaginative writings illuminate various aspects of the mutual inter- action between man and environment. Early or home place, with its formative and restorative qualities, has at the same time an ambiguity such that it exists in dialectical relationship to subsequent place. In the symbiotic relationship between man and environment, place may be considered as people, and people as place. Time is crucial to t…
Valued Landscape in Memory: The View from Prebends' Bridge
The memory of the classical view from Prebends' Bridge was tested in two stages of introspection by respondents after their departure from Durham, one in anticipating their photograph in sketch-form, then later in reacting to sketch and photograph in relation to the view as remembered. The reconstruction in memory, which retained some items 'larger than life' while reducing or omitting others, was preferred to the reproduction by camera. The memo…
Humanistic Geography and Literature. Essays on the Experience of Place
Humanistic Geography and Literature: Essays on the Experience of Place
Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography
Feelings about Mapping Feelings
The recent paper by Spencer and Dixon (1983) reports the successful application of Wood's experimental mapping language, Environmental A, for capturing feelings and impressions about the urban environment. Several cautionary comments may be made on the authors' advocacy of wider use of the technique' in perception studies so that the empirical tradition may begin to 'incorporate aspects of the humanistic-phenomenological approach' (p. 382). First…
Geography and literature
Sound and the Geographer
Catherine Cookson Country: Tourist Expectation and Experience
The paper reports the experience of tourists on organised group travel to Catherine Cookson Country, a newly-created image-region on South Tyneside, based around Britain's most popular fiction writer whose novels are all set in the area. Visitor expectation is largely realised, for a majority of tourists are Cookson readers and group travel to Tyneside has further bonded them in a spirit of pilgrimage. A Cookson Trail with directed viewing and co…
Classics in human geography revisited: Tuan, Y.-F. 1974: Topophilia. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall
Place Evocation: The Galilee Chapel in Durham Cathedral
Some reflections on World Heritage
This paper presents some initial reflections on the emergence of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, the significance of the appellation ‘world’ and the interpretation of ‘heritage’. The dichotomous definition of heritage has found decreasing support in practice and occasioned changes in the original Operational Guidelines for implementing the Convention
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