Ian Hamilton ( eng. Ian Hamilton ; 1937 - March 5, 2002 ) - British geographer , famous for his work in the field of industrial geography
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Ian Hamilton studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he received a bachelor's degree in economics. Then the area of his interests shifted toward geography, in 1963 he defended his thesis on changes in the socio-economic geography of Yugoslavia. In the future, he was mainly engaged in the study of countries with a planned economy ( Eastern Europe , the USSR , China ), especially the processes of their industrialization and their territorial reflection. He is also known as the author of the chapter “Models in industry” in the book “Models in Geography” edited by Peter Hagget and Richard Chorley (1967), where he summarized the experience of modeling industry development, summarized the development of this area in the school of spatial analysis
He taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 1961, from 1966 also at the School of Eastern European Countries, where in 1995-2001 he headed the Department of Sociology. In 1972-84. was the head of the industrial geography of the International Geographical Union. He attended lectures at universities in Eastern Europe and the USA.
Major Works
- Models in industry // Models in geography, 1967
- Yugoslavia: patterns of regional change, 1968
- Spatial Perspectives on Industrial Organization and Decision Making, 1974
- The Planned Economics (Aspects of Geography), 1979
- Economic activity, 1985
- Editor of a number of collections of articles on the geography of industry, which were published in 1979-84; of the compilation of regional development in the USSR: modeling (1985, jointly with Mark Bandman )