1. Most important Geographers/Theories Be able to match the person to their theory/model Be able to recognize/classify the theory/model
Pop/Migration
Boserup
Malthus
Ravenstein
Zelinsky
THEORIES/CONCEPTS >
Gravity model-migration push & pull factors,
population & food supply issues
rural to urban migration,
Ties b/t population growth & economic growth,
Culture > Language diffusion (military vs agriculture…
M. Gimbutas (p 150)
C. Renfrew (p 151)
Nature/Perspectives
Sauer
Ratzel
THEORIES/CONCEPTS >
environmental determinism Possiblism,
DEV/RESOURCES
Rostow
Wallerstein
Theories/CONCEPTS >
Stages of eco growth,
world systems theory

2. Norman Borlaug
RIP, 2009 
Green Revolution

3. Esther Boserup
Population and economic growth theory

4. ERNST BURGESS
CONCENTRIC ZONE MODEL OF URBAN GROWTH

5. CHRISTALLER
CENTRAL PLACE THEORY OF URBAN/SERVICES DEVELOPMENT

6. HARRIS & ULLMAN
MULTIPLE NUCLEI MODEL OF URBAN GROWTH

7. HOMER HOYT
SECTOR MODEL OF URBAN GROWTH

8. Alfred Mahan
Seapower theory of political growth

9. Thomas Malthus
Theory of overpopulation

10. HALFORD MAKINDER
HEARTLAND THEORY OF POLITICAL POWER

11. PETER MULLER
SUBURBANIZATION + TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS IN URBAN REGIONS

12. FRIEDRICH RATZEL
ORGANIC THEORY OF STATE GROWTH
+ ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM - Natural surroundings rule human action

13. Ernst Ravenstein
Gravity model of migration + Laws of Migration

14. Collin Renfrew
Language diffusion by agricultural means

15. Walter Rostow
Stages of economic growth/development

16. Carl Sauer
Possibilism
Humans can alter their environment

17. Nicholas Spykman
He who controls the Rimland, controls the world – political systems theory

18. Taylor and Lang
World Cities Model

19. VON THUNEN
AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES IN AN ISOLATED STATE SURROUND A MARKET ZONE THAT IS CIRCULAR

20. Immanuel Wallerstein
World Systems Theory

21. Alfred Weber
Least Cost theory and Industrial location theory

22. Most important Geographers/Theories Be able to match the person to their theory/model Be able to recognize/classify the theory/model
INDUSTRIALIZATION/ECO DEVELOPMENT
Weber
Rostow
Wallerstein
Borlaug (as related to development)
Theories/CONCEPTS >
Stages of eco growth,
world systems theory
Least cost theory
Green Revolution – links to development
CITIES AND URBAN LAND USE
Burgess
Harris/Ullman
Christaller
Hoyt
Muller
THEORIES/CONCEPTS
Concentric Zones
Multiple Nuclei
Central Place Theory
Sector Model
Suburbanization
Political
Mahan
Spykman
Mackinder
Ratzel
Models/Theories/concepts
Sea power
Rimland theory
Heartland theory
Organic states
AGRICULTURE
Von Thunen
Borlaug
Boserup
Christaller
Renfrew
Models/theories
Agri in the isolated state
Green Revolution
Centers of Agri and diffusion of culture/language

23. Anatolian Hearth theory
Correlation b/t source areas of 3 agricultural centers and 3 major languages

24. Central Place Theory
Spatial distribution of cities/service centers is a hexagon w/CP in the middle

25. Focus on CBD importance b/c CBD is at the center of the model
Concentric Zone Model
Burgess
Focus on CBD importance b/c CBD is at the center of the model
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26. Core-Periphery model
Places/regions can’t develop equally, somebody has to be poor!

27. Demographic Transition Model
Birth and mortality rates are tied to stages of development

28. Dependency Theory
Poor country’s economy is tied to a rich country, usually it’s former colonizer

29. Gravity model of migration
Relationship b/t volume of migration and distance from source & destination is inverse

30. He who controls Europe, controls the world
Heartland Theory
Mackinder's Heartland (also known as the Pivot Area) is the core area of Eurasia, and the World-Island is all of Eurasia (both Europe and Asia).
He who controls Europe, controls the world
‘Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island Who rules the World-Island commands the world’

31. Least Cost/Location Theory
Minimizing transportation costs

32. z
Migration Theory
Push-Pull Forces impact choices

33. Multiple Nuclei model
CBD is not as important, urban areas develop several CBDs

34. Sector model
Based on urban transportation routes and bid rent prices

35. World Systems Theory
Development is applicable across scales – local to regional to global