Mental Images of Foreign Places: The View from Singapore

• Main Author: Kong, Lily
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1991
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Human Geography; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1731
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the late 1960s, it was fashionable to claim the imminence of a behavioral in geography. To some, such a revolution seemed an almost inevitable reaction to the less than satisfactory models of human-environment interaction developed during the height of the Quantitative Revolution. Two decades later, it is now arguable whether a behavioural revolution did take place, just as it is arguable whether the still essentially positivtic basis of much research in ebhavioural and perception geography did provide more satisfactory explanations of human behaviour.