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Genealogies of the Grid: Revisiting Stanislawski’s Search for the Origin of the Grid-Pattern Town

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This chapter provides a genealogy of the grid and a critical reassessment of the limitations of Stanislawski’s theory of the grid’s origin as a means of challenging the doctrine of… Click to show full abstract

This chapter provides a genealogy of the grid and a critical reassessment of the limitations of Stanislawski’s theory of the grid’s origin as a means of challenging the doctrine of geographical diffusionism more generally. It then offers a selective overview of recent approaches to understanding the grid and calls for a comparative genealogy of gridded spaces.

Keywords: grid revisiting; genealogies grid; origin; genealogy; stanislawski search; revisiting stanislawski

Journal Title: Geographical Review
Year Published: 2018

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