Review of Spatial Organization: The Geographer's View of the World by Ronald Abler, John S. Adams, and Peter Gould

Authors

• S. M. Bhardwaj, Kent State University
• Robert Stoddard, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

5-1972

Comments

Published in The Professional Geographer 24:2 (May 1972), pp. 168–169. Copyright © 1972 by the Association of American Geographers; published by Wiley-Blackwell. Used by permission.

Abstract

Most introductory textbooks in geography are content-oriented, some pay lip service to basic concepts in geography, and still others are like tombstones conveying concepts and content of a bygone era. Abler, Adams and Gould have presented an introductory text that is rich in concepts, is rooted in contemporary scientific thinking, and conveys a dynamic, futuristic view of geography. The basic thrust in the book is "the circularly causal relationships between spatial structure and spatial processes." Geographers with a "lands-and-peoples" view of geography will be disappointed.