Geographers and the Tennessee Valley Authority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4491339 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Reed Boyce |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-42 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2004.tb00156.x |
| OpenAlex | W2131529899 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 14 |
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was the largest, most comprehensive, and most controversial regional development and planning project in U.S. history. Geographers were involved from its inception and made impressive contributions. Aside from the unit area method of data gathering and mapping, little is known about their contributions, some of which were truly ahead of their time. Although their work and recommendations were often discarded and unheeded because of political turbulence, the geographers rarely complained or entered into the political arena. Their work in the TVA has generally gone unheralded and even unappreciated within the geography profession. The primary purpose of this article is to document their contributions
Aside · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Work (physics · American Environmental and Regional History · Engineering · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · History · Law
Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push
The Rise of Geography at Northwestern University
Putting oceans to work
Power, Identity and the Production of Buffer Villages in “the Second Most Remote Region in all of Mexico”
Toward Structured Public Involvement
Ad Hoc Regionalism in Rural Development
Great Opportunities for the Many of Small Means
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940.
Detailed Field Mapping in the Study of the Economic Geography of an Agricultural Area
Geographic Contributions to Land-Use Planning
The Unit Area Method of Land Classification
The New Dealers
Geography beyond the Ivory Tower
A Diamond Anniversary
Harold Melvin Mayer, 1916–1994
Geography as Spatial Interaction
Geography as Spatial Interaction
Regional Development and the Wabash Basin
Mobile
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |