De herziening van de bestuurlijke kaders heeft naast onder andere staatsrechtelijke,
bestuurs-en beleidswetenschappelijke aspecten ook regionaal-en be stuursgeografische …

A strong methodological basis should counter the objections raised by too many members
of the scientific geographical community. This chapter describes the academic regional …

Social science is haunted by “the regional question.” Societal laws fail to explain geographically
unequal developments. This may be the consequence of a philosophical discourse that …

The relative decline of regional geography began in the English-speaking world in the 1950s,
with the expansion of interest first in topical specialisms and then in the methodological …

Before authors consider the problems surrounding urbanisation in the Netherlands, some
remarks should be made concerning the data used. The main categories distinguished are A-…

The ethical dimensions of geography attract attention of academic and applied geographers
more and more. Still, in contrast with the planners, applied geographers mostly only deal …

The methodological debates about comparative analysis in the social sciences are highly
relevant for regional geography. Once the theoretical foundations of the unique are accepted, …

Marc de Smidt, in his concluding comments at the end of the symposium in Utrecht, stated
that the different philosophical and ideological viewpoints that are presently current in …

‘Images’ belong to a family of related concepts of representations. According to modem
views on the concept of the region, regions are in principle dynamic entities. They manifest …

PIP: The author begins by describing the problems caused by the different meanings given
to commonly used terms in urbanization research by scholars in different Western countries. …