Maria Dolors García Ramón (born 1943) is a Spanish geographer. She is emeritus professor of geography of the Autonomous University of Barcelona ,
19-830: Award Vautrin Lud Prize [REDACTED] Michael Batty being awarded the 2013 Vautrin Lud Prize Awarded for Awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of geography Presented by An independent, five person jury First awarded 1991 ; 33 years ago ( 1991 ) No. of laureates 33 Prizes to 35 Laureates as of 2024 [REDACTED] Vautrin Lud The Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud , known in English as
38-746: A Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023, a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2009 , a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001, a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1982. Professional Institutes: He has been a Member and now Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute since 1971, and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport since 1984. He has been
57-703: A BA and PhD from the University of Barcelona and an MA from the University of California . García Ramón was professor of geography at the Autonomous University of Barcelona from 1969 to 2010, and also held appointments as professor or research fellow at the University of Arizona , Cornell University , University of Buenos Aires , Durham University and the London School of Economics . She lists her research specialisms as Rural Geography, Geographical Thought, and Geography and Gender. From 1988 to 1996 she
76-737: A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1972. He has recently acted as: Member of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information – APPSI, Chair of the ESRC Census Advisory Committee, and a Member of the UK Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2004–2009 Geography Panel. At Cardiff, he was a Member of the Computer Board for British Universities and Research Councils, now JISC (1988–1990),
95-627: A Member of the SERC ( Science and Engineering Research Council ) Transport Committee (1982–1985), Chair (1980–1982), then vice-chair (1982–1984) of the ESRC ( Economic and Social Research Council ) Environment and Planning Committee, and chair of the Conference of Heads of Planning Schools (CHOPS) 1986–1980. Maria Dolors Garc%C3%ADa Ram%C3%B3n García Ramón was born on 7 November 1943 in Gandia , Valencia . She has
114-421: A visiting assistant professor of transport planning in the department of civil engineering in the University of Waterloo , Ontario. He moved to the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (now the University of Cardiff ) in 1979, where he was professor of town planning . During this time, he acted as head of department, and dean of the faculty of environmental design. In 1990, he moved to direct
133-527: Is a British academic currently appointed as Bartlett Professor of Planning in The Bartlett at University College London . His work spans the fields of urban planning , geography and spatial data science . He has been Director—now Chairman—of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis , set up when he was appointed to UCL in 1995. His research and the work of CASA is focused on computer models of city systems. He
152-599: Is flows rather than locations that are key to an understanding not only of cities but also the processes for their design and planning. His most recent book Inventing Future Cities was published by MIT Press in 2018 and focuses on the idea that we can invent the future with respect to cities but can never predict them. He has edited several volumes, most recently Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems and Virtual Geographic Environments . Details of his publications are available from his curriculum vita and on his personal web pages. Learned Societies: He has been elected
171-763: The Royal Geographical Society and in 2016, the Gold Medal of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). He also received the Senior Scholar Award of the Complex Systems Society in September 2016. Michael Batty was born in Liverpool and educated at Northway County Primary School from 1950 to 1956 and then at Quarry Bank High School for Boys from 1956 to 1962. He went to the University of Manchester (1962–1966) where he studied Town and Country Planning gaining
190-2718: The Vautrin Lud Prize , is the highest award in the field of geography . Established in 1991, the award is named after the 16th Century French scholar Vautrin Lud [ fr ] . The award is given in the autumn of each year at the International Geography Festival in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges , France (the home town of Vautrin Lud) and decided upon by a five-person international jury. Recipients [ edit ] Name Country Year Peter Haggett UK 1991 Torsten Hägerstrand and Gilbert F. White Sweden and US 1992 Peter Gould US 1993 Milton Santos Brazil 1994 David Harvey UK 1995 Roger Brunet and Paul Claval [ fr ] France 1996 Jean-Bernard Racine Switzerland 1997 Doreen Massey UK 1998 Ron J. Johnston UK 1999 Yves Lacoste France 2000 Sir Peter Hall UK 2001 Bruno Messerli Switzerland 2002 Allen J. Scott US 2003 Philippe Pinchemel France 2004 Brian J. L. Berry US 2005 Heinz Wanner Switzerland 2006 Mike Goodchild UK 2007 Horacio Capel Sáez [ es ] Spain 2008 Terry McGee Canada 2009 Denise Pumain France 2010 Antoine Bailly Switzerland 2011 Yi-Fu Tuan China-US 2012 Mike Batty UK 2013 Anne Buttimer Ireland 2014 Edward Soja US 2015 Maria Dolors García Ramón Spain 2016 Akin Mabogunje Nigeria 2017 Jacques Lévy France 2018 John A. Agnew UK-US 2019 Rudolf Brázdil [ fr ] Czech Republic 2020 Brenda Yeoh Singapore 2021 Michael Storper France - US 2022 Jamie Peck Canada - UK 2023 Ron Boschma Netherlands 2024 See also [ edit ] List of geography awards International Geographical Union Victoria Medal Murchison Award Hubbard Medal References [ edit ] ^ "U. T. Dallas' Brian Berry to Receive World's Top Honor for Geographers" . Archived from
209-1480: The Wayback Machine http://www.fig.saint-die-des-vosges.fr/en Archived 2013-06-23 at the Wayback Machine v t e Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize Peter Haggett (1991) Torsten Hägerstrand and Gilbert F. White (1992) Peter Gould (1993) Milton Santos (1994) David Harvey (1995) Roger Brunet and Paul Claval (1996) Jean-Bernard Racine (1997) Doreen Massey (1998) Ron Johnston (1999) Yves Lacoste (2000) Peter Hall (2001) Bruno Messerli (2002) Allen J. Scott (2003) Philippe Pinchemel (2004) Brian Berry (2005) Heinz Wanner (2006) Mike Goodchild (2007) Horacio Capel Sáez (2008) Terry McGee (2009) Denise Pumain (2010) Antoine Bailly (2011) Yi-Fu Tuan (2012) Michael Batty (2013) Anne Buttimer (2014) Edward Soja (2015) Maria Dolors García Ramón (2016) Akin Mabogunje (2017) Jacques Lévy (2018) John A. Agnew (2019) Rudolf Brázdil (2020) Brenda Yeoh (2021) Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vautrin_Lud_Prize&oldid=1245483401 " Categories : Geography awards Recipients of
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#1732851949889228-561: The BA degree with First Class Honours in 1966. His PhD is from the University of Wales , Institute of Science and Technology in 1984. The thesis on Pseudo Dynamic Urban Models was made available online in 2012. He began his academic career in the University of Manchester in 1966, where he was appointed an assistant lecturer in town and country planning . He then spent 10 years at the University of Reading as research assistant, lecturer and reader in geography . During this time he spent one year as
247-735: The US National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo), where he was a professor of geography . He has held several visiting appointments in computing, engineering, planning, and geography at the following universities: University of Illinois ; University of Melbourne ; University of Hong Kong ; University of Bristol ; University of Michigan ; and he currently has visiting appointments at Cardiff University and Arizona State University . His research has focussed on
266-747: The Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize Awards established in 1991 1991 establishments in France Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2024 All articles containing potentially dated statements Official website not in Wikidata Webarchive template wayback links Michael Batty Michael Batty CBE FBA FRS FAcSS (born 11 January 1945)
285-472: The development of analytical methods and computer models for simulating the structure of cities and regions. Early work involved aggregate land use transport models which are summarised in his first book Urban Modelling . After this early work, he focused on more visual representations of cities and their models and some of these were represented in his second book Microcomputer Graphics . With Paul Longley , he published Fractal Cities . This work established
304-406: The idea that cities might be regarded as the outcome of self-similar fractal processes generating structure from the bottom up. His work on complexity theory in urban analysis and planning is the focus of his book Cities and Complexity , a summary of which is available on his ComplexCity web site. His book The New Science of Cities . ties many of the ideas together, developing the notion that it
323-724: The original on 2016-03-03 . Retrieved 2008-01-09 . ^ "CASA's Prof Michael Batty awarded the "Nobel prize" of geography" . Archived from the original on 2016-03-27 . Retrieved 2015-07-19 . External links [ edit ] Official website http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19981001/ai_n14191789 https://web.archive.org/web/20071216151242/http://www.geog.ucla.edu/news.php http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1683 http://www.csiss.org/SPACE/about/news.php https://web.archive.org/web/20080706145855/http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2000/492.html http://www.utdallas.edu/news/archive/2005/berry-lud.html Archived 2016-03-03 at
342-552: Was Secretary of the International Geographical Union 's Study Group on Gender and Geography. She was awarded the 2016 Vautrin Lud Prize ( Le Prix Vautrin-Lud ), which has been described as "the highest award that can be bestowed on a geographer" and "the Nobel of geography". This biographical article about a geographer is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article about
361-748: Was awarded the William Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011 for his book Cities and Complexity, the same prize a second time for his book The New Science of Cities in 2017–2018, the University Consortium GIS Research Award in 2012, and the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud , the so-called 'Nobel for geography', in 2013. In 2015, he was awarded the Founder's Medal of
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