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This article focuses on certain assertions concerning geography's role among the sciences. A synthesis of apparently dichotomous approaches to geographic understanding is also proposed. A scientific method concludes that geographers like any other scientists, identified not so much by the phenomena they study, as by the integrating concepts and processes that they stress. The integrating concepts and processes of the geographer relate to spatial arrangements and distributions, to spatial integration and organization and to spatial processes.

Examines the differentiation introduced into the central place hierarchy by metropolitan influences with improvement of highways and extension of commuting range in Washington. Development of population; Specialization of the business pattern within the metropolitan community; Paucity of highway-oriented and urban arterial business types.

Examines the role of transportation in the space economy. Increase in specialization in the society; Complexities of economic interdependence; Analysis of realms between economic and geography.

Examines the research methods and the findings of several studies of urban business in Chicago, Illinois. Information concerning urban business pattern, including a classification of business types and shopping centers; Application of the classification of business types developed; Study of business establishments located in ribbons along major arterial highways.

Focuses on methods of classification. Quantification of degrees of similarity; Estimates of the similarity of sampled individuals; Limitation of grouping techniques.

Examines problem of repeated regularities of patterns of occurrence of city sizes. Comparison of city populations and ranks; Elaboration of rank-size regularities; Size classes of cities.

A paradigm is offered far understanding the interlocking modes of data analysis that have come to characterize geography as a result of its recent "quantitative revolution." Among the most serious new problems to emerge have been those related to autocorrelation in spatial series, Two cases are discussed: spatial point processes in the plane, and generalized contiguity in continuous spatial series. In both cases the stationarity assumption is questioned, and an alternative formulation using diffusion theory is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the relationship between metropolitan labor market participation and regional development in the U.S. Description of the labor market map in the country; Implications of differences in commuting behavior; Discussion on regional policy alternatives.

Focuses on the conception of the National Goals Research Staff (NGRS) Report 'Toward Balanced Growth: Quantity With Quality,' by the U.S. government. Motivation for the creation of NGRS; Functions of the NGRS; Information on the first assignment of the NGRS.

Comments on the use of chi-square. Comparison of observed and expected frequencies within the specified categories; Number of observations on the raw data counted upon a specified unit of measurement; Measurements involving non-frequency data.