Peter Gould
Biographic Data
| ID | 633029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Gould |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Gould |
| SIGNATURE | GOULD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0806-9566 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 497 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Teaching and the New Geography
Mental Maps and Information Surfaces in Québec and Ontario
Maps of residential desirability and information surfaces in Québec and Ontario vary consider-ably between children and young adults in the two provinces. Such differences reflect variations in migration, education and economic factors. Difficult methodological questions are raised concerning the measurement of cultural and linguistic barrier effects
Becoming a Geographer
The Structure of Space(s)
The structure of space(s)
Some are called to looking at the world from the spatial perspective of the geographer. Distance powerfully structures many human spaces, and its effects are constantly revised by new technologies. For analytical purposes, both physical and human spaces may be transformed to produce conceptually simplified descriptions of apparently complex processes. Such spatio‐temporal processes themselves are shaped by the structure of the underlying spaces. …
The hierarchical diffusion of Aids and violent crime among U.S. metropolitan regions: Inner-city decay, stochastic resonance and reversal of the mortality transition
Census data on migration within and between the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas-containing more than 113 million people-permit construction of a probability-of-contact matrix corresponding to a particular Markov process dominated by the nation's largest cities, a hierarchical structure. Regression models based on vectors associated with that process find the large-scale diffusion of AIDS in the U.S.A. depends strongly on national patterns of c…
Du ski de fond avec Leonhard Euler à « Beaver Creek » (Colorado, Etats-Unis) / Skiing with Euler at Beaver Creek
Gould Peter. Du ski de fond avec Leonhard Euler à « Beaver Creek » (Colorado, Etats-Unis) / Skiing with Euler at Beaver Creek. In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 85, n°1, 1997. pp. 101-114
Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Space, time and the human being
Budapest and New York: Studies in metropolitan transformation 1870–1930
The Slow Plague. A Geography of the Aids Pandemic
Spatial Structures and Scientific Paradoxes in the Aids Pandemic
A geographical analysis of the AIDS epidemic in the United States requires a reification of the individual by adopting a 'social physics' perspective. Carefully employed, spatial aggregation of individual cases circumvents the problem of patient confidentiality, and produces spatial series containing valuable scientific information generally ignored by traditional epidemiologists. The diffusion of AIDS from 1982 to 1990 at the national level prov…
Perspectives and sensitivities: Teaching as the creation of conditions of possibility for geographic thinking
Teaching methodological courses means providing students with general ideas to think with, rather than specific facts to think about. Rethinking the teaching task must be informed by an awareness of ideological, philosophical, technical and analytical perspectives, and should look for basic themes uniting apparently different approaches. Almost all quantitative methodologies are actually specific examples of the mathematical operation of mapping.…
The Slow Plague: A Geography of the Aids Pandemic
Sharing a Tradition ‐ Geographies From the Enlightenment
Will Aids be contained within U.S. minority urban populations
Why not? The Search for Spatiotemporal Structure
Fire in the Rain: The Democratic Consequences of Chernobyl
Guest Essay: Thinking Like a Geographer
Compared to the geographic wasteland south of your border, geography appears to have fared well in Canada, both as a formal discipline extending our understanding by illuminating the human and physical worlds, and as a subject taught at all levels to create informed and aware citizens. I known you think much remains to be done, and perhaps things always look a bit greener on the other side of the hill, but I hope you will not mind my somewhat env…
A Ground for Common Search
On Geography
The Geographer at Work
The present and future being of geography as a human science
The Geographer at Work
Transport Expansion in Underdeveloped Countries: A Comparative Analysis
Tanzania 1920-63: The Spatial Impress of the Modernization Process
The charge to examine old problems with new eyes, and so obtain a firmer understanding of the structure of the modernization process, came from Karl Deutsch in 1953. And now, sixteen years later, other social and behavioral scientists urge us to focus upon the process, the very dynamics of modernization, noting that with this more powerful view of change the sequential structures themselves will be clarified. But in examining the modernization pr…
Is Statistix Inferens the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose
Peter Gould, Is Statistix Inferens the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose?, Economic Geography, Vol. 46, Supplement: Proceedings. International Geographical Union. Commission on Quantitative Methods (Jun., 1970), pp. 439-448
Geography 1957–1977: The Augean Period
On the Geographical Interpretation of Eigenvalues
IN THE history of the development of all scientific fields, a large number of instances can be found where a man has taken information available to all and has reordered it in particular ways to illuminate an area that was previously dark and obscure. Numerous examples spring to mind, ranging from the classical attempts of Linnaeus to order information on plants and animals by imposing a system of classification, to W. Heisenberg's ordering of kn…
Man Against His Environment: A Game Theoretic Framework
W ITHOUT cataloging the many and various definitions of human geography by professional geographers over the past few decades, it is safe to say that most have included the words Man and Environment. Traditionally, geographers have had a deep intellectual curiosity and concern for the face of the earth and the way it provides, in a larger sense, a home for mankind. Much of what we see upon the surface of the earth is the work of Man, and is the r…
The mental maps of British school leavers
Gould P. R. and White R. R. (1968) The mental maps of British school leavers, Reg. Studies 2, 161–182. Mental maps, or residential perception surfaces, are constructed for pupils about to leave twenty-three schools in Britain. While the surfaces vary with the locations of the schools, all display remarkably consistent patterns. A cartographic model is presented in which the mental map at a specific location is generated by convoluting a general, …
Will Aids be contained within U.S. minority urban populations
The Development of the Transportation Pattern in Ghana
The hierarchical diffusion of Aids and violent crime among U.S. metropolitan regions: Inner-city decay, stochastic resonance and reversal of the mortality transition
Census data on migration within and between the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas-containing more than 113 million people-permit construction of a probability-of-contact matrix corresponding to a particular Markov process dominated by the nation's largest cities, a hierarchical structure. Regression models based on vectors associated with that process find the large-scale diffusion of AIDS in the U.S.A. depends strongly on national patterns of c…
Settlement models in archaeology
Acquiring Spatial Information
Locational Analysis in Human Geography
Letting the Data Speak for Themselves∗
In Science, great difficulty is sometimes experienced in giving up hypothesized structures. The inadequacies of Freudian hypotheses are highlighted, and attention is directed to Dasein-analysis, which stays close to the data. This perspective focuses attention upon the phenomenological tradition, and suggests that certain mathematical frameworks in human geography are inappropriate. The adequacy of a priori models is also questioned from a Heideg…
Spatial Organization: The Geographer's View of the World
A Search for Common Ground
The Spatial Organization of Society
A Note on Research into the Diffusion of Development
Political, social, and economic development take place in space as well as time, but all too often they are written about and studied as though they existed at a point, which, it will be recalled, has position and no magnitude. In a sense, all social scientists are historians, and use the temporal dimension as a framework within which to examine the political, social, and economic behaviour of men. But few feel comfortable trying on the geographe…
The Slow Plague: A Geography of the Aids Pandemic
What is worth teaching in geography
To be efficient, geographers must teach not facts, but how to learn. This means teaching theories, methods and models, and also the languages of investigation, which include mathematical languages. These are important because some human knowledge and discourse, including growing conceptual areas in geography, cannot be translated from mathematics. Mathematical languages are tools of inquiry, the teaching of which can quickly open up new lines of …
Computers and spatial analysis: Extensions of geographic research
Toward a Geography of Economic Health: The Case of New York State
On the Road to Colonus: Or Theory and Perversity in the Social Sciences
It is late afternoon, and two figures are seen walking slowly along a path that leads through laurel, olives, and vines towards white Colonus, earth's loveliest, where the nightingales liquid notes most haunt the darkness of green glades. They are deep in conversation, yet move with steady, purposeful strides towards an inn that cools its crisp Demesticha in the flowing waters of a spring
Beginning geography: A human and technical perspective
A first course in human geography has been designed for majors and students from the more technical fields at university. It is built around five computer exercises, none of which require any programming or computer skills. Problems and exercises are designed to enhance carry‐over skills and humane awareness
Quantitative geography
Method in commodity flow studies
The Development of the Transportation Pattern in Ghana
Toward a Geography of Economic Health: The Case of New York State
Man Against His Environment: A Game Theoretic Framework
W ITHOUT cataloging the many and various definitions of human geography by professional geographers over the past few decades, it is safe to say that most have included the words Man and Environment. Traditionally, geographers have had a deep intellectual curiosity and concern for the face of the earth and the way it provides, in a larger sense, a home for mankind. Much of what we see upon the surface of the earth is the work of Man, and is the r…
Transport Expansion in Underdeveloped Countries: A Comparative Analysis
Africa, Continent of Change
Geographic Studies
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A Note on Research into the Diffusion of Development
Political, social, and economic development take place in space as well as time, but all too often they are written about and studied as though they existed at a point, which, it will be recalled, has position and no magnitude. In a sense, all social scientists are historians, and use the temporal dimension as a framework within which to examine the political, social, and economic behaviour of men. But few feel comfortable trying on the geographe…
Information for Efficient Decisions in East African Transportation
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Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana
On the Geographical Interpretation of Eigenvalues
IN THE history of the development of all scientific fields, a large number of instances can be found where a man has taken information available to all and has reordered it in particular ways to illuminate an area that was previously dark and obscure. Numerous examples spring to mind, ranging from the classical attempts of Linnaeus to order information on plants and animals by imposing a system of classification, to W. Heisenberg's ordering of kn…
Locational Analysis in Human Geography
The mental maps of British school leavers
Gould P. R. and White R. R. (1968) The mental maps of British school leavers, Reg. Studies 2, 161–182. Mental maps, or residential perception surfaces, are constructed for pupils about to leave twenty-three schools in Britain. While the surfaces vary with the locations of the schools, all display remarkably consistent patterns. A cartographic model is presented in which the mental map at a specific location is generated by convoluting a general, …
Essays on Commodity Flows and the Spatial Structure of the Indian Economy
The Geographical Context of Human Diets in Southern Guatemala
Research Strategies for Rural Spatial Planning
Let me dissent from the apparent purpose and intent of this section, admitting that such dissent may well be founded upon ignorance. In the first place, I do not know what 'rural geography' is. Surely it is time we got over the nonsense of splitting human geography into ever-smaller pieces labelled with anachronistic adjectives from the thirties? Next, I do not think it helpful to pull out of their overall spatial context those patterns, relation…
Quantitative geography
Computer applications in stratigraphic analysis
Computers and spatial analysis: Extensions of geographic research
Tanzania 1920-63: The Spatial Impress of the Modernization Process
The charge to examine old problems with new eyes, and so obtain a firmer understanding of the structure of the modernization process, came from Karl Deutsch in 1953. And now, sixteen years later, other social and behavioral scientists urge us to focus upon the process, the very dynamics of modernization, noting that with this more powerful view of change the sequential structures themselves will be clarified. But in examining the modernization pr…
The Perception of Residential Desirability in the Western Region of Nigeria
This paper attempts to extend the investigation of geographic space preferences, focussing particularly on their development and their change from childhood to adulthood, and on the flows of information from which such images are formed. The data used is from Lagos and Western Nigeria. First, the area, the participants, and the questionnaire are explained. Then the space preferences of the area (from five locations) for four age groups from thirt…
Is Statistix Inferens the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose
Peter Gould, Is Statistix Inferens the Geographical Name for a Wild Goose?, Economic Geography, Vol. 46, Supplement: Proceedings. International Geographical Union. Commission on Quantitative Methods (Jun., 1970), pp. 439-448
Spatial Organization: The Geographer's View of the World
Regional Forecasting
The Spatial Organization of Society
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