ABSTRACT
THE chorological and spatial viewpoints inAmerican geography can be construed as thesis and antithesis in a geographical dialectic.1 The most influential and comprehensive statement of the chorological position in English is Hartshorne's The Nature of Geography, in which he anticipated and countered many of the arguments that were later to be presented by Schaefer and restated by others as the spatial alternative.2 Although Hartshorne used
these arguments as foils to the chorological theme, the subsequent articulation of the spatial viewpoint, which redefined and subsumed the chorological, gained ascendancy as a competing and alternative view of geography, perhaps recently .surpassing the chorological as the dominant conception of the discipline.
