Brian Berry
| Brian Berry | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 February 1934 Sedgley, Staffordshire, UK |
| Nationality | British by birth, American by naturalization |
| Fields | Geography, City and Regional Planning, Urban and Regional Economics |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Dallas |
| Alma mater | University College London |
| Known for | Quantitative revolution |
Brian Joe Lobley Berry (born February 16, 1934) is a British-American human geographer and city and regional planner. He is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor in the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. His urban and regional research in the 1960s sparked geography’s social-scientific revolution and made him the most-cited geographer for more than 25 years.
Berry was born in Sedgley, Staffordshire, United Kingdom with Bell Beaker Y-dna L21>A5846>A5840>A5835>Y18815 and mitochondrial T2f1a1. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire]] and Acton County Grammar School, Acton, Middlesex. He graduated from University College, London, with a B.Sc. (Economics) degree with first class honors in 1955. He went on to the University of Washington where he completed an M.A. in 1956, and a Ph.D. in 1958, studying under noted geographer and leader of the "quantitative revolution" William Garrison in the Department of Geography.
Upon completing his Ph.D., Berry was appointed to the faculty at the University of Chicago, rising to the position of named professor, geography department chair and director of the Center for Urban Studies, positions that he held until 1976. During this time his urban and regional research sparked geography’s social-scientific revolution and made him the most-cited geographer for more than 25 years, known for his refinement of central place theory and for laying the foundations of analytic urban geography, of spatial analysis, and of geospatial information science. Since 1990 his studies have focused on long-wave theory and its relationships to macrohistorical phasing of economic development and political behavior. He also has researched variations in the quality of life ("happiness") across and within nations.
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