Strukturen Sehen. Über die Karriere eines Hexagons in der quantitativen Revolution
Publications from the early quantitative revolution in geography saw a significant change in the use of visual material. While the old regionalist paradigm of "Länderkunde" was dominated by images of "geographical individuals" the new geography was dominated by abstract models an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/71/303/2016/gh-71-303-2016.pdf |
| Summary: | Publications from the early quantitative revolution in geography saw a
significant change in the use of visual material. While the old regionalist
paradigm of "Länderkunde" was dominated by images of "geographical
individuals" the new geography was dominated by abstract models and
visualized laws and theories. Overall visual material gains in importance,
both quantitatively and qualitatively. This paper follows the changed
functions, possibilities and promises of visualizing epistemic things in
geography's new paradigm. This is done by following the translations,
transformations and mobilizations of the famous hexagon Walter Christaller
published in his 1933 "Theory of central places in South Germany". Since
the 1940s this Hexagon has become not only an icon of the new geography, but
an instrument for making quantitative-theoretical thinking in the geography
plausible and at the same time to build a visual bridge between the old and
the new geography. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |