Activities Of American Geographers

Finnish Immigrants in America, 1880–1920. A. William Hoglund.

Geology of the Industrial Rocks and Minerals. Robert L. Bates.

Readings in Culturul Geography. Philip L. Wagner AND Marvin W. Mikesell, eds.

Anglo-America: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. P. F. Griffin, R.N. Young, AND R.L. Chatham

Undergraduate Education in Foreign Affirs. Percy W. Bidwell.

Crevecoeur's Eighteenth-Century Travels in Pennsylvania and New York. Michel-Guillaume: Jean DE Crevecoeur. Percy G. Adams, trans. and ed.

Canada and the Canadians: Profile of a Modern Nation. Alistair Horne.

Four Thousund Years Ago: d Panorama of Life in the Second Millennium B.C. Geoffrey Bibby.

Interpretation of Aerial Photographs. T. Eugene Avery.

A Geography of the U.S.S R.: The Background to a Planned Economy. J.P. Cole AND F.C. German.

Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States, with a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah. John Wesley Powell. Wallace Stegner, ed.     

Activities of American Geographers

BRITAIN-An informal review by L. Dudley Stamp.     

Activities of American Geographers

Cognitive distance is analyzed in relation to various elements of the built environment. The basis for accepting a power function as the underlying functional relationship between cognitive distance and its objective counterpart is discussed. This counterpart has been assumed to be objective distance. Evidence is presented to indicate that cognition of distance is based upon travel time rather than upon objective distance or upon objective distance modified by other elements of the built environment.     

North American Geographers and the Pacific Rim: Leaders or Laggards

The ascendance of the Pacific Rim is an indisputable global happening. North American geography, a logical leader in the study of this high profile phenomenon, has lagged behind other disciplines in Rim-focused research. This article argues in favor of a heightened Rim awareness, surveys recent publications, suggests promising Pacific Rim research directions, and proposes how the Association of American Geographers can help promote Rim studies.     

Geography and Politics of the United States in the Year 2000

Abstract

The future as a productive subject of scholarly inquiry has only recently been recognized by geographers. The discipline's concern with man's spatial behavior and structure in a social, economic, and political vein suggests that teaching, research, and planning efforts can be funneled in these directions. Predicting future events and processes in the social sciences and in most areas of geography is difficult, probably more so in political geography than in many other fields. For this reason studies of a political nature represent a ready challenge and opportunity to examine present political worlds and suggest the likelihood of future political events, problems, and processes. This study, which focuses on the United States, identifies six developments and characteristics that are expected to be representative of the nation's political geography by the year 2000. Specifically, it is believed that by that date boundaries will have less meaning, the city will become the focus of political attention (as opposed to the state), new political cultures will emerge accompanied by new voting patterns, centralized authority at the national level will continue, and political considerations will play a key role in environmental planning and protection.