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Torsten Hägerstrand

Earth Sciences

#14

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#69

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Geography

#3

World Rank

#15

Historical Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Torsten Hägerstrand was a Swedish geographer. He is known for his work on migration, cultural diffusion and time geography. A native and resident of Sweden, Hägerstrand was a professor of geography at Lund University, where he received his doctorate in 1953. His doctoral research was on cultural diffusion. His research has helped to make Sweden, and particularly Lund, a major center of innovative work in cultural geography. He also influenced the practice of spatial planning in Sweden through his students.

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Torsten Hägerstrand's Published Works

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Innovation Diffusion As a Spatial Process (1967) (1482)
What about people in Regional Science? (1970) (482)
The propagation of innovation waves (1952) (308)
DIORAMA, PATH AND PROJECT (1982) (283)
Aspects of the spatial structure of social communication and the diffusion of information (1966) (212)
A Monte Carlo Approach to Diffusion (1965) (192)
Reflections on “what about people in regional science?” (1989) (121)
Geography and the study of interaction between nature and society (1976) (97)
Activity Organization and the Generation of Daily Travel: Two Future Alternatives (1977) (61)
The Computer and the Geographer (1967) (49)
Presence and absence: A look at conceptual choices and bodily necessities (1984) (49)
On the definition of migration (1969) (39)
Space and time in geography : essays dedicated to Torsten Hägerstrand (1981) (34)
IMPACT OF TRANSPORT ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE (1974) (30)
Decentralization and Radio Broadcasting: On the `Possibility Space' of a Communication Technology (1986) (29)
Landscape as Overlapping Neighbourhoods (1995) (24)
On socio-technical ecology and the study of innovations (1974) (20)
Innovation Diffusion as a Spatial Process. (Innovationsförloppet ur korologisk Synpunkt) (1969) (18)
Migration in Sweden, a symposium (1957) (17)
Information systems for regional development-a seminar. (1973) (13)
6 The impact of social organization and environment upon the time-use of individuals and households (1977) (12)
Geographers of Norden : reflections on career experiences (1988) (9)
Studies in rural-urban interaction (1951) (7)
Information Systems for Regional Development (1971) (6)
Classics in human geography revisited (1992) (4)
The national settlement pattern as a political problem (1978) (4)
What about Nature in Regional Science (1993) (3)
The Global and the Local (1992) (3)
CHAPTER 14 – THE GEOGRAPHERS' CONTRIBUTION TO REGIONAL POLICY: THE CASE OF SWEDEN (1976) (2)
Invitation to Dialogue - A Progress Report (1980) (2)
The Identification of Progress in Learning (2009) (2)
Information systems for regional development : a seminar : general papers (1971) (1)
The two vistas (2004) (1)
Safari to Klinik Wunderland (2000) (0)
Fears and Hopes for European Urbanization (1972) (0)

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