Allan Pred
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Allan Richard Pred was an internationally-known American
geographer
and professor at the University of California at Berkeley
He wrote over 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and book chapters.
Pred was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1936, He enrolled at Antioch College
in 1953, at age 16, and graduated first in his class in 1957. He received his Ph.D. in 1962 from the University of Chicago
, and then became an Assistant Professor at Berkeley, and was appointed full professor in 1971 at the age of 34. He served as the chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Geography between 1979 and 1988, and was made a Professor of the Graduate School in 2005, the most senior Berkeley position.
He met his wife Hjördis, in San Francisco in 1962; they moved between Berkeley and Sweden on a yearly basis, raising bi-lingual children.
His books are required reading in multiple college courses..
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and professor at the University of California at Berkeley
He wrote over 20 books and monographs, translated into seven languages, and over 70 articles and book chapters.
Pred was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1936, He enrolled at Antioch College
Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was the founder and the flagship institution of the six-campus Antioch University system. Founded in 1852 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1853 with politician and...
in 1953, at age 16, and graduated first in his class in 1957. He received his Ph.D. in 1962 from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, and then became an Assistant Professor at Berkeley, and was appointed full professor in 1971 at the age of 34. He served as the chair of the UC Berkeley Department of Geography between 1979 and 1988, and was made a Professor of the Graduate School in 2005, the most senior Berkeley position.
He met his wife Hjördis, in San Francisco in 1962; they moved between Berkeley and Sweden on a yearly basis, raising bi-lingual children.
His books are required reading in multiple college courses..
Books written
- External relations of cities during "Industrial Revolution": with a case study of Göteborg, Sweden: 1868-1890. (1962)
- Spatial dynamics of U.S. urban-industrial growth, 1800-1914; interpretive and theoretical essays (1966)
- Behavior and location. Foundations for a geographic and dynamic location theory 1967 .
- Urban growth and the circulation of information: the United States system of cities, 1790-1840 (1973)
- Systems of cities and information flows. Two essays. with Gunnar E. Törnqvist.
- Major job-providing organizations and systems of cities (1974)
- City-systems in advanced economies : past growth, present processes and future development options (1977)
- Urban growth and city systems in the United States, 1840-1860 (1980)
- Place, practice, and structure : social and spatial transformation in southern Sweden, 1750-1850 (1986)
- Making histories and constructing human geographies : the local transformation of practice, power relations, and consciousness (1990)
- Lost words and lost worlds : modernity and the language of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Stockholm (1990)
- Reworking modernity : capitalisms and symbolic discontent with Michael John Watts. (1992)
- Recognizing European modernities : a montage of the present (1995)
- Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces, and the Popular Geographical Imagination (2000)
- Past is not dead : facts, fictions, and enduring racial stereotypes (2004)
Books edited
- Space and time in geography : essays dedicated to Torsten Hägerstrand" (1981)
- Violent geographies : fear, terror, and political violence with Derek Gregory (2007)
Representative recent articles
- Place as Historically Contingent Process : Structuration and the Time-Geography of Becoming Places (1984)
- Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geo-graphical Imagination in Sweden Antipode, 29 (1997), 383-416.
- "The Nature of Denaturalized Consumption and Everyday Life," in Bruce Braun and Noel Castree, eds., Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), 153-172.
- "Memory and the Cultural Reworking of Crisis: Racisms and the Current Moment of Danger in Sweden, or Wanting it Like Before," Society and Space, 16 (1998), 635-664.
- Unspeakable Spaces: Racisms Past and Present on Exhibit in Stockholm, or the Unad-dressable Addressed City & Society, 13 (2000), 119-159.
Awards and honors
- Anders Retzius Medal - e - by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and GeographySwedish Society for Anthropology and GeographyThe Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography is a scientific learned society founded in Sweden in 1877...
in 1991 - Polish Academy of SciencesPolish Academy of SciencesThe Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...
- Association of American Geographers, in 1978 and 2005.
- Elected a corresponding fellow of the British AcademyBritish AcademyThe British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
in 2005. - Willy Brandt Professorship in 2001 at Uppsala UniversityUppsala UniversityUppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477. It consistently ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of...
- honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden in 1992.
- visiting appointments at the École des Hautes Études in Paris and the University of Lund in Sweden
External links
- homepage
- dies on 05 January 2007
- transcript Geographer on Film: ALLAN PRED (1936- ) University of California at Berkeley, interviewed by Geoffrey J. Martin