A subjective list of seminal papers in Geography according to

Paul Sutton and his Research Methods students over the years.

Have at them…..

 

Cities and the Creative Class                                                                                                                                                                      Richard Florida

Our sense of Snow: the myth of John Snow in Medical Geography                                                                                          Kari S. McLeod

The Effects of Portland’s Urban Growth Boundary on Urban Development Patterns and Commuting                      Myung-Jin Jun

The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital                                                                                               Robert Costanza et al

Global Change and OUR COMMON FUTURE                                                                                                                                       Gro Harlem Brundtland et al

Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals                                                                                                                WS Robinson

Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production                                                                                          Imhoff et al

Ruminations of a Dyspeptic Ex-Editor                                                                                                                                                    John Fraser Hart

Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research                                          Mei-Po Kwan

The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem                                                                                                                                                        Stan Openshaw

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2008                                                                                                                            United Nations

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment                                                                                                                                                      

Land and Life                                                                                                                                                                                                     Carl Ortwin Sauer

Public Health: Return of the Population Growth Factor                                                                                                                 Martha Campbell et al

A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data                                                        Anderson et al

On the mode of communication of Cholera                                                                                                                                        John Snow

On the First Law of Geography: A Reply                                                                                                                                                Waldo Tobler

“Sustainable Development” in Geographic Perspective                                                                                                               Thomas J. Wilbanks

Labnotes from the Jeremiah Experiment: Hope for a Sustainable Transition                                                                       Robert W. Kates

Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges                                                                                                         Eilinor Ostrom

How to Lie with Maps                                                                                                                                                                                   Mark Monmonier

Location, Place, Region, and Space                                                                                                                                                          Helen Couclelis

Space and Flows                                                                                                                                                                                              Janice Monk