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Scale as relation: musical metaphors of geographical scale

Howitt, Richard·1998·Area
DOI 10.1111/j.1475-4762.1998.tb00047.x
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Summary The concept of geographical scale, despite being one of geography's foundational concepts, has been undertheorized compared to other core concepts such as environment, space and place. Two aspects of the concept of geographical scale (size and level) are relatively well recognized. A third aspect (scale as relation) is not. In this exploratory paper, the implications of the metaphors conventionally used to think and write about scale are considered, and some musical metaphors of geographical scale are used to sketch out the importance of scale as a relation.

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Authors
Howitt, R.
Venue
Area
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1998-03
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
49-58
ISSN
  • 0004-0894 (ISSN-L)
  • 1475-4762
DOI
10.1111/j.1475-4762.1998.tb00047.x
OpenAlex
W2134138459
Cited by
371
References
22
FWCI
18.51
Type
journal article
Language
en
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