ABSTRACT
The quantitative revolution in urban geography occurred during the American involvement in the war in Vietnam. Perhaps when America turned its collective back on the war following the fall of Saigon, it also chose to leave behind some of the analytical frameworks and policy agendas of the 1960s. By mid-decade, geography was still behind psychology and economics in terms of quantitative analysis, but well ahead of anthropology and political science. A number of advisers and mentors in geography contributed in subtle but powerful ways to the quantitative revolution by encouraging students to ask new questions and master new methods of quantitative analysis, to explore new theoretical frameworks, and to recast old inquiries in new ways. The urban geography symposium at Lund, Sweden, in 1960, in cooperation with the International Geographical Congress of that year, brought together a group that would include many of the leaders of the urban geography quantitative revolution that unfolded during the following decade.
