William Garrison (geographer)
William Louis Garrison was an American geographer, transportation analyst and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. While at the Department of Geography, University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the "quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of regional science. Many of his students went on to become noted professors themselves, including: Brian Berry, Ronald Boyce, Duane Marble, Richard Morrill, John Nystuen, William Bunge, Michael Dacey, Arthur Getis, and Waldo Tobler. His transportation work focused on innovation, the deployment of modes and logistic curves, alternative vehicles and the future of the car.Books by Garrison
- Studies of Highway Development and Geographic Change Greenwood Press, New York.
- Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives , 2000
- The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment , 2005
- The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press., 2014
Important papers
- Berry, B.. and Garrison, W. L. 1958: "The functional bases of the central place hierarchy". Economic Geography 34, 145 – 54.
