Dr. Maurice Yeates
Fellow
Current Employer
Toronto Metropolitan University
Election Year
1980
Academy
Academy of Social Sciences
Discipline
Geography
Department
School of Graduate Studies
Keywords
Urban, commercial, quantitative, GIS
Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Queen's University, Maurice Yeates was previously the Head of that University's Department of Geography. He has an international reputation for his contributions to two areas which are of particular concern to both scholars and policy-makers - urbanization and regionalization. His research in these fields is marked to an unusual degree by bold imaginative conceptualization and methodological rigor.
In addition to numerous articles, he has written, alone or in collaboration, about ten books, some of which have gone into several editions and have been translated into several languages. His "Main Street", concerned with the Windsor to Quebec 'corridor' has attracted considerable attention, not only for its substantive contribution, but also as an example of the school of modern quantitative locational analysis.
In addition to numerous articles, he has written, alone or in collaboration, about ten books, some of which have gone into several editions and have been translated into several languages. His "Main Street", concerned with the Windsor to Quebec 'corridor' has attracted considerable attention, not only for its substantive contribution, but also as an example of the school of modern quantitative locational analysis.