CITYSCAPES AND FOOTPRINTS: DANCING THROUGH THE URBAN MILIEU WITH LARRY FORD

摘要

With his imaginative and thoughtful approach to understanding cities and their milieus, Larry R. Ford (1943-2009) had a profound impact on urban research, both within and beyond geography. An open poll conducted by the Urban Planning, Design and Development Network ranked Larry as one of the 100 most influential urban thinkers of our time (Planetizen 2009). He had good company on this list, with such notables as Frank Lloyd Wright, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Ford, and Charles, Prince of Wales, among theluminaries. By Larry's own reckoning, during his nearly forty-year career at San Diego State University, he walked through and photographed about 1,000 cities in eighty countries on six continents—I think he was chagrined that Antarctica had no urban settlements to visit!