Bridging the qualitative-quantitative divide in transport geography

Professional Geographer

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-335

  Goetz, Andrew R ^a   Vowles, Timothy M ^b   Tierney, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrality; Critical geography; Critical transport geography; Qualitative quantitative divide; Transport geography

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 65649129691     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330120902931960     Document Type: Article

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