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The Scale Project Home Page

GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE is one of the foundational concepts of Geography, yet it remains a chaotic and poorly understood concept. Throughout the 1990s, Richie Howitt, along with Bob Fagan and Ron Horvath and others, have pursued a long debate and discussion about geographical scale.

This project is an open-ended, long term theoretical project. The purpose of this Home Page is to collect together materials and links to relevant sites to advance discussion of this concept.

Richie's publications on geographical scale include:

Howitt, Richard (2000): Scale and the Other: embodiment, emplacement and infinity. Unpublished paper submitted to Geoforum (May 2000). [go to HTML version of this paper]
Howitt, Richard (1998): Scale as relation: musical metaphors of geographical scale. Area 30(1), 49-58. [go to HTML version of this paper]
Howitt, Richard (1997): Getting the scale right: the geopolitics of regional agreements: Northern Analyst 2: 15-17 [go to HTML version of this paper]
Howitt, Richard (1993): "A world in a grain of sand": towards a reconceptualisation of geographical scale, Australian Geographer, 24.1: 33-44 [go to HTML version of this paper]

An extensive bibliography of material dealing with geographical scale is included at this site. This bibliography is updated from time to time and additions and comments are welcomed.

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