Reginald Golledge

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Reginald George Golledge (* 6. December 1937 in Dungog , New South Wales ; † 29. May 2009 in Goleta , California ) was an Australian - American geographer who is particularly concerned with the context of spatial behavior and the urban built environment employed . After he went blind in 1984 , his research focused on the spatial orientation of visually impaired people.

Life

Golledge, son of a railroad worker, grew up in various smaller towns in New South Wales. He studied geography at the University of New England , where he was the captain of the rugby union team . He then taught for two years at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where he a. a. Leslie J. King and William AV Clark . All three soon went to North America and became major protagonists of the so-called “ quantitative revolution ” in geography.

In the summer of 1963 Golledge followed his colleague Harold H. McCarty , who was a visiting scholar at the University of Canterbury, to the University of Iowa in the United States. After completing his doctorate , he taught for a year at the University of British Columbia before moving to Ohio State University , where Golledge was full professor from 1971 . Recruited by David Simonett , he went to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1977 . Aside from visiting professorships, Golledge spent the rest of his career there. In 1984 he lost almost all of his eyesight due to ischemic optic neuropathy . From 1999 to 2000, Golledge was President of the Association of American Geographers . He died in 2009 at the age of 71, leaving behind his second wife, Allison, and four children.

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Golledge was one of the most important exponents of cognitive-behavioral approaches in geography. a. together with perceptual and environmental psychologists . After his blindness he did research with the psychologists Jack M. Loomis and Roberta L. Klatzky on the development of a satellite-based navigation system for the visually impaired. He was considered to be the most important Australian geographer of the post-war period.

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Reginald G. Golledge and Robert J. Stimson: Analytical Behavioral Geography . Croom Helm, London a. a. 1987, ISBN 0-7099-3844-6 .
  • Reginald G. Golledge and Robert J. Stimson: Spatial Behavior: A Geographic Perspective . Guilford Press, New York et al. a. 1997, ISBN 1-57230-049-3 .

Collective works

  • Gary T. Moore and Reginald G. Golledge (Eds.): Environmental Knowing: Theories, Research and Methods (=  Community Development Series . Volume 23 ). Dowden, Hutchinson Ross, Stroudsburg 1976, ISBN 0-87933-060-0 .
  • Kevin R. Cox and Reginald G. Golledge (Eds.): Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited . Methuen, New York et al. a. 1981, ISBN 0-416-72430-2 .
  • Reginald G. Golledge (Ed.): Wayfinding Behavior: Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore et al. a. 1999, ISBN 0-8018-5993-X .

Essays

  • Reginald G. Golledge: Learning About Urban Environments . In: Tommy Carlstein, Don Parkes and Nigel Thrift (eds.): Making Sense of Time (=  Timing Space and Spacing Time . Band 1 ). Wiley, New York 1978, ISBN 0-470-26511-6 , pp. 76-98 .
  • Helen Couclelis, Reginald G. Golledge, Nathan Gale and Waldo Tobler: Exploring the Anchor-Point Hypothesis of Spatial Cognition . In: Journal of Environmental Psychology . tape 7 , no. 2 , 1987, pp. 99-122 , doi : 10.1016 / S0272-4944 (87) 80020-8 .
  • Jack M. Loomis, James R. Marston, Reginald G. Golledge and Roberta L. Klatzky: Personal Guidance System for People with Visual Impairment: A Comparison of Spatial Displays for Route Guidance . In: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness . tape 99 , no. 4 , 2005, p. 219-232 , PMC 2801896 (free full text).

See also

literature

  • Rob Kitchin: Reginald Golledge . In: Phil Hubbard and Rob Kitchin (Eds.): Key Thinkers on Space and Place . 2nd Edition. Sage, Los Angeles et al. a. 2011, ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5 , pp. 185-191 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Robert J. (Bob) Stimson: Reginald George Golledge (December 6, 1937– May 29, 2009) . In: Geographical Research . tape 47 , no. 3 , 2009, p. 337–338 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1745-5871.2009.00605.x .
  2. ^ A b c Reginald G. Golledge: You Don't Have to Have Sight to Have Vision . In: Peter Gould and Forrest R. Pitts (Eds.): Geographical Voices: Fourteen Autobiographical Essays . Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 2002, ISBN 0-8156-2940-0 , pp. 124-148 .
  3. ^ Robert J. Stimson: You Don't Need Sight to Have Vision: Reginald G. Golledge Was a Giant in Analytical Human Geography . In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers . tape 102 , no. 1 , 2012, p. 234–243 , doi : 10.1080 / 00045608.2011.592727 .
  4. ↑ Les King and Bob Stimson: Reg Golledge: A Tribute . In: Geographical Analysis . tape 42 , no. 1 , 2010, p. 1-4 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1538-4632.2009.00778.x .
  5. ↑ Steven Dickman and Jürgen Scriba: Signals from space guide the blind. In: Focus . October 31, 1994, accessed May 21, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Golledge, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Golledge, Reginald George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-American geographer
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dungog , New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2009
Place of death Goleta , California