ABSTRACT
Within geography, the 1970s and 1980s have witnessed a forceful reaction against what most practitioners now regard as the arid and excessively abstract strain that permeated the discipline during the quantitative revolution. This reaction has taken the form of a search not only for social relevance (see Johnston 1979) and a consequent rebirth of applied geography (see Briggs 1981, Sant 1982), but also for new techniques and new ways of approaching traditional or well-established topics.
