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Reflections on “what about people in regional science?”

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The paper is the text of a speech delivered to the opening session of the Twenty-Eighth European Congress of the Regional Science Association in Stockholm in August 1988. It reflects on an earlier address (Hägerstrand 1970) in the light of numerous comments and criticisms made during the interim period.

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  1. Department of Social and Economic Geography, University of Lund, Sölvengatan 13, Lund, Sweden

    Torsten Hägerstrand

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Hägerstrand, T. Reflections on “what about people in regional science?”. Papers of the Regional Science Association 66, 1–6 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01954291

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