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.,. this volume...updates and revises the state-of-the-art and the major topics in the field....Golledge and Stimson first demonstrate the limited explanatory power of the classical location models and later, topic by topic and scale by scale, they show how behavior theory and new models are currently being used by geographers to solve a wide array of spatial problems. The book advances the cohesion of the discipline within geography but at the same time it also exemplifies...multi-disciplinary relevance....should be a major textbook in the field, mainly for undergraduates....the authors should be praised for their devotion to continuously mold and upgrade the inter-disciplinary field of behavioral geography. -- Geografiska Annaler <br>.,. provides an exhaustive review of the extremely wide range of literature covering all the principal decision-making and choice-behaviour literature including the normative models....offers a new researcher in any of the fields covered an excellent historical review of the methodological approaches and ideas of which they should be aware....certainly a book that I would regard as an essential component of my library. -- Urban Studies <br> The well-designed volume is amply illustrated with close to 70 tables and 150 figures....Offers real depth and breadth of content. A particular strength is the completeness of presentation of the themes addressed in each chapter....The authors integrate concepts, research design, and data collection, methodology, results, and interpretations of empirical studies in their treatment of each theme. This approach gives readers--students and scholars--a valuable model of inquiry. Very reasonably priced, this book is aworthwhile text for anyone interested in human geography. -- Environment and Planning A <br> A substantial text.... Spatial Behavior is well written and well presented. It contains a wealth of material, extending well beyond the bounds of what could be most readily labelled as 'behavioural geography.' -- Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design <br> The text is one I would recommend strongly to all those interested in spatial behavior from both a quantitative and nonquantitative background....Its breadth is quite remarkable....I would recommend its use to anyone interested in human geography and it would make a wonderful text from which to teach a course on behavioral geography at any level. At approximately 5 cents a page (paperback), this is a real bargain! -- Journal of Regional Science <br> A clear and accessible writing style, accompanied by a powerful look at the contributions geographers can make to real-world situations. In addition, the book provides a useful reminder to all those who thought that behavioural approaches were dead, that they have evolved and still have a central role in geographical inquiry. -- Environment and Planning B <br>

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Reginald G. Golledge, Ph.D., is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His interests include spatial cognition, the acquisition and use of spatial knowledge across the life-span, cognitive mapping, individual decision-making, household activity patterns, and gender issues in spatial cognition. Legally blind, some of his current research includes: comparison of spatial abilities of blind and sighted persons; development of a Personal Guidance System (PGS) for blind travelers; disposable tactual strip maps for blind travelers; evaluation of auditory/tactual information systems as travel planning aids; and travel needs of the non-driving disabled. Robert J. Stimson, Ph.D., is Professor of Urban Studies at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is also a Director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and responsible for the operation of its Queensland office. Educated in geography at the University of New England and later taking his doctorate at the Flinders University of South Australia, Stimson is recognised as one of the leading urban researchers in Australia. He has published widely in social, economic and behavioral aspects of urban development in Australia, and more recently has worked on aspects of the internationalization of the Australian space economy and the growth of mega city regions in the Pacific Rim region. Stimson has longstanding multidisciplinary interests including the application of survey research methods in the investigation of spatial behaviour and the role of institutions in public policy and urban development and planning. His previous appointments include Dean of the Faculty of Management at the University of Canberra, Director of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, and as a geographer in the School of Social Sciences at the Flinders University, South Australia, where he was also Director of the Centre for Applied Social and Survey Research.

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