ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the changing vision of the world as presented in the major geographical textbooks which have been used in the geography departments of Dutch universities since the early 1950s. It demonstrates the geographer's view of the world changed considerably. It describes the changes in geography's major applications and to its related changes in scope and methodology. Although Alexander focused on economic activities, his ultimate goal was to describe spatial variations on a global scale. The word 'landscape' was still in use, albeit with a focus on economic landscapes. But the world was still in the limelight. The world appeared only coincidentally when spatial analysis took place on a global scale. A new regional geography should place the study of the world and its macro-regions back in the centre; this would have consequences for the cartographic presentation of the results of this renewed art of geography.
