It was a product of the quantitative revolution in cartography that took place in the mid-20th century in that its approach to design was a scientific rather than artistic one.
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While at the Department of Geography, University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the " quantitative revolution " in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems.
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Much of the development during the quantitative revolution is now apparent in the use of geographic information systems; the use of statistics, spatial modelling and positivist approaches is still important to many branches of human geography.
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The quantitative revolution also changed the structure of geography departments in the United States, with many physical geographers being merged with geology departments or environmental science departments, leaving the geography departments to become solely human-geography oriented.
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He earned an M . A . degree from Northwestern University in 1964, where he studied under William Garrison, a transportation geographer and a leader of the " quantitative revolution " that swept geography and other fields in the mid-twentieth century.
