President's Plenary Session: bringing geography to the public through books.
Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, January, 2006 by Allen, James
When I was a graduate student in the 1960s, I was struck by the absence of geographers writing books for the public. I found so many aspects of the world fascinating, and I thought geographers' research was interesting. But professional geographers seemed to be writing only for their fellow geographers, and their analyses and interpretations of regions, places, economies, and landscapes were buried in academic geography journals. I do remember an exception--a book that I read with admiration, a book that demonstrated how a geographer could create an idea, study it closely, and present it in a way that captivated Americans. That was the book Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States (1961), by Jean Gottmann, a French geographer who had been a...
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