Regional Surveys and Local Knowledges
The Geographical Imagination in Britain, 1918-39
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Matless (0000-0002-7978-6346, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 464-464 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/622711 |
| OpenAlex | W2089475221 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay considers the 'geographical imagination' in inter-war Britain, focusing on the movement for regional survey inspired by Patrick Geddes. After arguing that this movement and period has been inadequately considered in most histories of geography, Geddes' Outlook Tower in Edinburgh is described to introduce the broader themes of 'outlook geography' with which the essay is concerned. The history and aims of regional survey are then explored, and the means used to present the survey are detailed. The particular kind of 'local knowledge' embodied by the survey and the kind of citizenship it was intended to promote are outlined. The essay concludes with some broader considerations of the role of geography as a social practice and the particular geographical imagination suggested by survey
Economic geography · Geography · Regional science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Data Analysis and Archiving · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Sobre a Geografia Como Uma Disciplina Visual
Contested Global Visions
Mapping the Geographical Imagination
Between Galen, Geddes, and the Gael
Moral geographies of english landscape
Governmentality, territory and the U.S. census
The History Manifesto
“The Free-Masonry of Sorrow”
Space, Knowledge and Power
The spatiality of geography teaching and cultures of alternative education
On canonical geographies
Straightforward and Ordered
A Pleasure Ground for the Noisy Herds? Incompatible Encounters with the Cotswolds and England, 1900–1950
The regional survey movement and popular autoethnography in early 20th-century Britain
Geographers and the theory and practice of return fieldwork
The question of culture in cultural geography
Reading Drumlin
New perspectives on the history and philosophy of geography
A crusade against consumption”
The Civic Survey of Greater London
The Politics of Geography and the Italian Occupation of Libya
Making the single city
Regional planning as cultural criticism
The field, the museum and the lecture hall
Walter Benjamin’s Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth
On Geography as a Visual Discipline
The troubled passage from ‘village communities’ to planned new town developments in mid-twentieth-century South Asia
Kew Gardens and the Emergence of the School Museum in Britain, 1880–1930
Encyclopaedism, Modernism and the Classification of Geographical Knowledge
Reshaping Boundaries
Regional survey and the economic geographies of Britain 1930–1939
Geographically touring the eastern bloc
The making of a sub‐discipline
Historical geographies of provincial science
Nature, Poetry, and Public Pedagogy
Doomsday Fieldwork, or, How to Rescue Gaelic Culture? The Salvage Paradigm in Geography, Archaeology, and Folklore, 1955 - 62
Envisioning Urban Histories
Down to Earth? Geography Fieldwork in English Schools, 1870-1944
Revisiting the Region
The Geography of Truth
Reculturing and Particularizing Climate Discourses
Landscape phenomenology and the imagination of a new South Africa on Parktown Ridge
Imperial Eyes
The Age of the World Picture
Nature, the Modern and the Mystic
Neo-Lamarckism and the Development of Geography in the United States and Great Britain
Not without Art, but yet to Nature true’. A re‐evaluation of organic thought in urban planning and geography
The Great War and Modern Memory
An Introduction to Regional Surveying
Rural Conservation in Inter-War Britain
City, Region and Regionalism
The Study of Local Geography
The Worlds of Patrick Geddes
Provinces of England
A Modern Stream
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,31 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2023 (30) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |