Thomas Harvey

Professor of Geography

P.O. Box 751-GEOG
Portland, OR 97207-0751
Phone: 503-725-3164
E-mail: harveyt@pdx.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Geography, University of Minnesota, 1990.
M.S., Geography, The
Pennsylvania State University, 1982.
B.A., Environmental Studies,
Antioch College, 1974.

INTERESTS

Regions and landscapes, urban geography, landscape photography.

During fall term of 2008, I will be teaching in AHA International's program in London.

The English Landscape: Forests, Farms, and Villages
British Towns and Cities

You will find more information on these courses and the study abroad program in London here.

CLASSES

Urban Geography
United States and Canada
Urban Landscapes
Sustainable Cities
Sense of Place
Field Methods in Human Geography

PUBLICATIONS

Siena & Sustainability: City and Country in Tuscany. Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments 20 (Summer/Fall 2007).

Sacred Spaces, Common Places: The Cemetery in the Contemporary American City. The Geographical Review 96:2 (2006): 295-312.

Can the Way We Eat Change Metropolitan Agriculture? The Portland Example. Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments 17 (Fall/Winter 2005) (with Martha Works).

Suburban Morphology and Portland's Urban Growth Boundary. Suburban Form: An International Perspective, edited by Kiril Stanilov and Brenda Scheer, Routledge, 2004 (with Martha Works).

Urban Sprawl and Rural Landscapes: Perceptions of Landscape as Amenity in Portland, Oregon. Local Environment 7:4 (2002): 381-396 (with Martha Works).

The Rural Landscape as Urban Amenity: Land Use on the Rural-Urban Interface in the Portland, Oregon, Metropolitan Area. Working Paper, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2001 (with Martha Works).

The Changing Face of the Pacific Northwest. Journal of the West 37:3 (1998): 22-32.

Portland’s Postmodern Landscapes. Metroscape (Spring, 1998): 20-25.

Tupelo, Mississippi: Place and Name. Southern Cultures 2:3/4 (1996): 295-313.

Portland, Oregon: Regional City in a Global Economy. Urban Geography 17:1 (1996): 95-114.

Small-Town Minnesota. Minnesota in a Century of Change: The State and Its People Since 1900, edited by Clifford Clark, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989.

Railroad Towns: Urban Form on the Prairie. Landscape 27:3 (1983): 26-34.

Mail-Order Architecture in the Twenties. Landscape 25:3 (1981): 1-9.

PHOTOGRAPHS

"Nez Perce Powwow." Cover photograph, Learn-Ed Nations Inventory, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland, OR., 2002.

“Overhead Door.” Jones Soda Company, 2001.

“Welcome to Grygla.” Cover photograph, Exploring the Beloved Country: Geographic Forays into American Society and Culture, by Wilbur Zelinsky, University of Iowa Press, 1994.

“Bankrupt: Four Views of a Middle River, Minnesota, Bank.” Old-House Journal 18:3 (1990): 96.

“Loose Cattle.” Cover photograph, Landscape 28:2 (1985).

“Pigeon Houses and Dog, Near Round Top, Texas.” In “The Southern Ethic,” a special issue of Southern Exposure 3:2/3 (1976): 69.

 

Other Photographs

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