Regional Studies Association

In early 2024, Alan Kinder left the Geographical Association to become the Chief Executive of the Regional Studies Association.

While researching a few GA Presidents I came across some connections between the GA and the RSA.

This document was produced for their 50th Anniversary in 2015. (PDF download)

There are some familiar names.

It was no surprise to see Dudley Stamp mentioned there, or Patrick Abercrombie.

In the entry on Michael Wise:

He was also the founding President of the Transport Studies Society and for ten years (1973–1984) chaired the Executive Committee of the Association of Agriculture and, although he held no office, he was much involved, as his unpublished 1992 paper shows, in the negotiations that led to the establishment of the Regional Studies Association.

"A British Group of the organisation was later formed with membership including influential figures such as Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Sir Dudley Stamp, Otto Koenigberger, Percy Johnson-Marshall, Robert Gardner-Medwin and Robert Grieve. The British Group’s underlying principles originated from the work of C.B. Fawcett and  Patrick Geddes in employing empirical approaches to regional planning and physical development, and contrasted with the quantitative methods and theories being developed and promoted through regional science. The older generation in this group had been trained in the tradition of the arts and crafts movement."