Four Traditions of Geography: W.D. Pattison
Four Traditions of Geography: W.D. Pattison
Four Traditions of Geography: W.D. Pattison
GEOGRAPHY
W.D. Pattison
W.D. Pattison
In 1964, W.D. Pattison, a professor at the
University of Chicago, wanted to counter the idea
that geography was an undisciplined science by
saying that geographers had exhibited broad
enough consistency such that there were four
distinctive, but affiliated traditions.
Tradition One
Spatial Tradition (also called Locational Tradition