Rural Geography at Utrecht

Hauer, Joost; Veldman, Jeroen

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9663.1983.tb00060.x

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“…The theoretical implications of mathematical practice in geography and the tension between idiographic and nomothetic research had been digested in the first wave already. Moreover, sensibilities learned in the first wave did trickle down in the second, making that when Dutch quantitative geography was finally codified in a textbook, it hardly had a strong positivist theoretical signature (Hauer and Van der Knaap, 1973). For better or for worse, it is historically false to say that Dutch quantitative geography stands in the footsteps of the American quantitative revolution.…”

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In the footsteps of the quantitative revolution?

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Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography

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The Netherlands is commonly described as a latecomer to the quantitative revolution. Dutch spatial science coincided with the societal transformation of the late 1960s that included the professionalization, upscaling and democratization of higher education. Although these changes profoundly changed Dutch human geography, lumping together this transformation with the quantitative revolution largely erased the memory of an earlier phase of Dutch quantitative geography in the 1950s. This earlier wave originates in Dutch geography's engagement with applied research by sociologists, urbanist-engineers and economists in the immediate post-1945 period. In the urgency of post-war rebuilding, in which geographers found a significant source of employment, quantitative methods were debated and welcomed to speed up the survey process in spatial planning. The chapter describes how quantitative methods took root in Dutch geography in these two waves in the 1950s and 1960s, and discusses why the first has been largely forgotten. While the 1960s generation performed the quantitative revolution as taught by anglophone textbooks, the emergence of quantitative geography got caught up with the democratization movement in higher education. Resultantly, the conception of the Netherlands as latecomer became lodged in the historiography.

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“…Yet the theoretical foundation for a renewed interest in the study of (peripheral) rural areas was laid by a senior lecturer with a long history of research experience behind him, Joeke Veldman, who unfortunately passed away in 1984. He emphasized the contrast between periurban rural areas and peripheral rural areas where the socio-spatial system and the physical-spatial structure respectively predominate (Hauer and Veldman, 1983). Access and accessibility were the key concepts in a time-space approach within the Utrecht department, in the style of the School of Lund and inspired by the manner in which British researchers such as Moseley and Cloke applied these principles to their evaluation of planning.…”

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