Larry R Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3757744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry R Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford |
| SIGNATURE | FORD L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 260 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Interstitial Stories: The Places Between Theory and Lurking
Editors' note: Larry Ford, who taught geography at San Diego State University from 1971 to 2009, was to deliver a version of this essay at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, 30 September–3 October 2009, but he passed away on 17 September 2009. To honor Larry, Richard Fusch, a professor of geography at Ohio Wesleyan University, read his deceased colleague's paper at that meeting. Prior to the meet…
A tribute and a review
Inspirations from the Geographical Review: Jean Gottmann's “Why the Skyscraper?”
Editors' note: Larry lost his battle against pancreatic cancer in September 2009. When we invited him, some months before his death, to prepare this essay he eagerly agreed, despite his worsening health. We acknowledge with gratitude his longtime service as a member of the Geographical Review Editorial Board, as a Councilor of the American Geographical Society, and as a professor of geography at San Diego State University. In many ways he was him…
World Cities and Global Change: Observations on Monumentality in Urban Design
A prominent urban geographer presents a sweeping review essay on monumentality in the urban design of world cities. After outlining a number of the large, grand urban plans and projects of the past and present, he focuses on the four components of monumental urban design: comprehensive conceptions of legible urban form; iconic buildings; integrated urban transportation hubs; and planned downtown and midtown redevelopment projects. Concentrating o…
Ethnic Neighborhoods and Urban Revitalization: Can Europe use the American Model
Ethnic neighborhoods have long been used to facilitate urban revitalization in older, inner‐city neighborhoods in American cities, but this strategy is much less common in European cities. This is especially surprising because immigrants make up a significant percentage of the population in a large number of those cities. This article explores the role that a largely invented Little Italy has played in revitalizing a section of downtown San Diego…
Dressings and Sauces
Emerging Political Paradigms
In a way, the 1970s were a golden age for urban geography. Although spatial science was still dominant, a number of new approaches, methodologies, and worldviews were added to the field. For a while, it seemed as though many of these approaches could be mixed and matched in complex ways in order to adequately address the complexity of the urban world. The era also ushered in a new political awareness, however, and urban geographers were increasin…
Building Biographies: To Know Cities from the inside Out
Alleys and Urban Form: Testing the Tenets of New Urbanism
For at least a decade, writers have endeavored to both criticize and defend neotraditional urbanism. The battle has raged mostly at the macro-level, with advocates of new urban form claiming that better design will lead to better communities. Meanwhile, many authors, including critical geographers, have condemned neotraditional urbanists for inventing histories and contributing to an increasingly polarized society. My purpose is to sidestep these…
City profile
Lynch revisited
Latin American City Models Revisited
Although models of Latin American city are an interesting topic in their own right, they have also been providing us with an opportunity to discuss models in general. William Crowley's comments on my A New and Improved Model of Latin American City Structure are a case in point (Ford 1996; Crowley 1998). Some of Crowley's comments border on the trivial and curmudgeonly, but he does raise some very important and serious issues that all would-be mod…
Midtowns, Megastructures, and World Cities
Midtown” is an important but understudied component of the morphology and historical evolution of North American and, to a lesser extent, European cities, and landmark buildings have played a notable role in giving midtowns identity and prestige. Especially significant are the recent diffusion and expansion of the twinned “midtown‐skyscraper” concept to the major cities of East and Southeast Asia. For a variety of reasons, it is likely that massi…
A New and Improved Model of Latin American City Structure
Models of urban spatial structure take on a life of their own. We still refer to the Concentric Zone Model of Burgess and Hoyt even though it was developed to describe Chicago during the mid-1920s. This is not totally bad. Good models, those that illustrate the processes of urban growth and change in straightforward form, are flexible and can be modified to fit particular settings. As heuristic devices they teach conceptual frameworks at very bas…
Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs
Continuity and Change in the American City
The essays in this issue of the Geographical Review speak for themselves, but it is possible to increase their effect as a coherent group by addressing some common themes that are touched on but not fully examined. I have four themes - or, more accurately, burning questions - in mind. First, when speaking of changes in the American city, it is important to keep in mind the degree to which time-specific models are the reference. These models were …
The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality
Architecture, Power, and National Identity
A Model of Indonesian City Structure
INDONESIA is the fourth-largest country in the world, with an area of almost 2 million square kilometers and more than 185 million inhabitants. More than 50 million Indonesians are classified as urban, a figure that is expected to increase to more than 70 million by 2000. It is estimated that in 1992 Indonesia had seven urban areas surpassing one million people and twenty-two other cities with populations in excess of 250,000 (Sensus penduduk 199…
Reading the Skylines of American Cities
Housing in America in the 1980s
The Modern Urban Landscape: From 1880 to the Present
Multiunit Housing in the American City
Urban Morphology and Preservation in Spain
Architecture and the Geography of the American City
RBAN geography is concerned with space and place-two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional landscapes. But rarely are these two approaches adequately merged in the study of a city. The urban landscape is an architectural container that constrains and directs spatial decisions, imparts personality to place, and plays a major role in the creation of positive and negative images of places that can affect the future character of the urban landsc…
A Model of Latin American City Structure
A New and Improved Model of Latin American City Structure
Models of urban spatial structure take on a life of their own. We still refer to the Concentric Zone Model of Burgess and Hoyt even though it was developed to describe Chicago during the mid-1920s. This is not totally bad. Good models, those that illustrate the processes of urban growth and change in straightforward form, are flexible and can be modified to fit particular settings. As heuristic devices they teach conceptual frameworks at very bas…
The Ghettoization of Paradise
Alleys and Urban Form: Testing the Tenets of New Urbanism
For at least a decade, writers have endeavored to both criticize and defend neotraditional urbanism. The battle has raged mostly at the macro-level, with advocates of new urban form claiming that better design will lead to better communities. Meanwhile, many authors, including critical geographers, have condemned neotraditional urbanists for inventing histories and contributing to an increasingly polarized society. My purpose is to sidestep these…
Midtowns, Megastructures, and World Cities
Midtown” is an important but understudied component of the morphology and historical evolution of North American and, to a lesser extent, European cities, and landmark buildings have played a notable role in giving midtowns identity and prestige. Especially significant are the recent diffusion and expansion of the twinned “midtown‐skyscraper” concept to the major cities of East and Southeast Asia. For a variety of reasons, it is likely that massi…
A Model of Indonesian City Structure
INDONESIA is the fourth-largest country in the world, with an area of almost 2 million square kilometers and more than 185 million inhabitants. More than 50 million Indonesians are classified as urban, a figure that is expected to increase to more than 70 million by 2000. It is estimated that in 1992 Indonesia had seven urban areas surpassing one million people and twenty-two other cities with populations in excess of 250,000 (Sensus penduduk 199…
City profile
Architecture and the Geography of the American City
RBAN geography is concerned with space and place-two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional landscapes. But rarely are these two approaches adequately merged in the study of a city. The urban landscape is an architectural container that constrains and directs spatial decisions, imparts personality to place, and plays a major role in the creation of positive and negative images of places that can affect the future character of the urban landsc…
Urban preservation and the geography of the city in the USA
World Cities and Global Change: Observations on Monumentality in Urban Design
A prominent urban geographer presents a sweeping review essay on monumentality in the urban design of world cities. After outlining a number of the large, grand urban plans and projects of the past and present, he focuses on the four components of monumental urban design: comprehensive conceptions of legible urban form; iconic buildings; integrated urban transportation hubs; and planned downtown and midtown redevelopment projects. Concentrating o…
Ethnic Neighborhoods and Urban Revitalization: Can Europe use the American Model
Ethnic neighborhoods have long been used to facilitate urban revitalization in older, inner‐city neighborhoods in American cities, but this strategy is much less common in European cities. This is especially surprising because immigrants make up a significant percentage of the population in a large number of those cities. This article explores the role that a largely invented Little Italy has played in revitalizing a section of downtown San Diego…
Lynch revisited
Architecture, Power, and National Identity
Reading the Skylines of American Cities
Urban Morphology and Preservation in Spain
Latin American City Models Revisited
Although models of Latin American city are an interesting topic in their own right, they have also been providing us with an opportunity to discuss models in general. William Crowley's comments on my A New and Improved Model of Latin American City Structure are a case in point (Ford 1996; Crowley 1998). Some of Crowley's comments border on the trivial and curmudgeonly, but he does raise some very important and serious issues that all would-be mod…
Tijuana: Landscape of a Culture Hybrid
IJUANA is one of those places that almost everyone has heard of. Mention the city's name and vivid images come to mind: the Tijuana jail, raunchy cantinas and strip joints, prostitutes, drugs, sad-eyed donkeys painted to look like zebras, and taxi drivers selling pictures of their sisters. Everyone knows about Tijuana. Mention that you are doing in the city and people wink knowingly, titter lecherously, or intimate that they know what kind of res…
The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality
Multiunit Housing in the American City
Continuity and Change in Historic Cities: Bath, Chester, and Norwich
Continuity and Change in the American City
The essays in this issue of the Geographical Review speak for themselves, but it is possible to increase their effect as a coherent group by addressing some common themes that are touched on but not fully examined. I have four themes - or, more accurately, burning questions - in mind. First, when speaking of changes in the American city, it is important to keep in mind the degree to which time-specific models are the reference. These models were …
Emerging Political Paradigms
In a way, the 1970s were a golden age for urban geography. Although spatial science was still dominant, a number of new approaches, methodologies, and worldviews were added to the field. For a while, it seemed as though many of these approaches could be mixed and matched in complex ways in order to adequately address the complexity of the urban world. The era also ushered in a new political awareness, however, and urban geographers were increasin…
Interstitial Stories: The Places Between Theory and Lurking
Editors' note: Larry Ford, who taught geography at San Diego State University from 1971 to 2009, was to deliver a version of this essay at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, 30 September–3 October 2009, but he passed away on 17 September 2009. To honor Larry, Richard Fusch, a professor of geography at Ohio Wesleyan University, read his deceased colleague's paper at that meeting. Prior to the meet…
The Recruiting Game: Toward a New System of Intercollegiate Sports
Economic Man and the City of the Mind: Comments on Perception and the Sense of Place
What Time Is This Place
Space adrift: Saving urban landmarks through the Chicago plan
Tijuana: Landscape of a Culture Hybrid
IJUANA is one of those places that almost everyone has heard of. Mention the city's name and vivid images come to mind: the Tijuana jail, raunchy cantinas and strip joints, prostitutes, drugs, sad-eyed donkeys painted to look like zebras, and taxi drivers selling pictures of their sisters. Everyone knows about Tijuana. Mention that you are doing in the city and people wink knowingly, titter lecherously, or intimate that they know what kind of res…
Continuity and Change in Historic Cities: Bath, Chester, and Norwich
Urban preservation and the geography of the city in the USA
Main Street: The Face of Urban America
The Ghettoization of Paradise
A Model of Latin American City Structure
Planning the Past
The Recruiting Game: Toward a New System of Intercollegiate Sports
Architecture and the Geography of the American City
RBAN geography is concerned with space and place-two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional landscapes. But rarely are these two approaches adequately merged in the study of a city. The urban landscape is an architectural container that constrains and directs spatial decisions, imparts personality to place, and plays a major role in the creation of positive and negative images of places that can affect the future character of the urban landsc…
Livable Streets
The Immoral Landscape: Female Prostitution in Western Societies
Urban Morphology and Preservation in Spain
Multiunit Housing in the American City
The Modern Urban Landscape: From 1880 to the Present
Housing in America in the 1980s
Reading the Skylines of American Cities
Architecture, Power, and National Identity
A Model of Indonesian City Structure
INDONESIA is the fourth-largest country in the world, with an area of almost 2 million square kilometers and more than 185 million inhabitants. More than 50 million Indonesians are classified as urban, a figure that is expected to increase to more than 70 million by 2000. It is estimated that in 1992 Indonesia had seven urban areas surpassing one million people and twenty-two other cities with populations in excess of 250,000 (Sensus penduduk 199…
The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality
Continuity and Change in the American City
The essays in this issue of the Geographical Review speak for themselves, but it is possible to increase their effect as a coherent group by addressing some common themes that are touched on but not fully examined. I have four themes - or, more accurately, burning questions - in mind. First, when speaking of changes in the American city, it is important to keep in mind the degree to which time-specific models are the reference. These models were …
A New and Improved Model of Latin American City Structure
Models of urban spatial structure take on a life of their own. We still refer to the Concentric Zone Model of Burgess and Hoyt even though it was developed to describe Chicago during the mid-1920s. This is not totally bad. Good models, those that illustrate the processes of urban growth and change in straightforward form, are flexible and can be modified to fit particular settings. As heuristic devices they teach conceptual frameworks at very bas…
Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs
Geography (29 works) · History (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · History (14 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Economic geography (7 works)