Another geographer who has passed recently, following earlier entries for John Cole and Cuchlaine King amongst others.Brian Robson OBE 1939-2020. A world leading urban geographer, shaper of British urban policy, former Head of Geography at Manchester and former editor of the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers has died. He will be sorely missed by his many friends and colleagues pic.twitter.com/8yWRbknMPy— Manchester Geography (@GeographyUOM) June 10, 2020
He had a piece on 'The Urban Environment' published in 'Geography' in 1975
The Royal Geographical Society awarded him its Founders medal in 2000 and he was made OBE in 2010.
Robson, B. T. “The Urban Environment.” Geography, vol. 60, no. 3, 1975, pp. 184–188. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40568421. Accessed 14 June 2020.
Update
An obituary by Noel Castree was published in 'The Guardian'.
It explained how Professor Robson helped develop the Index of Multiple Deprivation used by many geographers to explore inequality.
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