Time-geography: a new beginning

@article{Thrift1981TimegeographyAN,
  title={Time-geography: a new beginning},
  author={Nigel J. Thrift and Allan Richard Pred},
  journal={Progress in Human Geography},
  year={1981},
  volume={5},
  pages={277 - 286}
}
In a recent brief critique Alan Baker (1979) has, conveniently perhaps, touched upon a number of commonly held myths and misunderstandings about timegeography, as well as making some valid criticisms. Baker, like many others, mistakenly views time-grography merely as a rigid descriptive model of spatial and temporal organization which lends itself to accessibility constraint analysis (and related exercises in social engineering). But, timegeography is much more than that. It is a discipline… 
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