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Citations
10373
World Ranking
5230
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Michael Dear is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research contributions include publications in academic venues such as The AAG Review of Books.

The scientist's recent work encompasses a publication titled Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, published in 2020 by The AAG Review of Books. This paper has garnered citations in scholarly discussions relevant to its field.

Michael Dear's research profile includes the following publication venue:

  • The AAG Review of Books

Michael Dear has not been noted to have frequent co-authors in their recent work.

Their recognized awards include being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1988.

Best Publications

  • Understanding and Overcoming the NIMBY Syndrome

    Michael Dear

  • The Postmodern Urban Condition

    Michael J. Dear

  • Landscapes of despair

    M. J. Dear

  • Scaling Community Attitudes Toward the Mentally Ill

    S. Martin Taylor;S. Martin Taylor;Michael J. Dear;Michael J. Dear

  • Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness

    Michael James Dear;Jennifer R Wolch

  • Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City

    Jennifer R. Wolch;M. J. Dear

  • The Postmodern Challenge: Reconstructing Human Geography

    Michael Dear

  • Postmodernism and Planning

    M J Dear

  • The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social Life

    Jennifer R. Wolch;M. J. Dear

  • Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate

    Michael Dear

  • Seeing People Differently: The Sociospatial Construction of Disability:

    Michael Dear;Robert Wilton;Sharon Lord Gaber;Lois Takahashi

  • State apparatus : structures and language of legitimacy

    Gordon L. Clark;Michael Dear

  • The Changing Dynamics of Community Opposition to Human Service Facilities

    Lois M. Takahashi;Michael J. Dear

  • GeoHumanities : Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place

    Michael Dear;Jim Ketchum;Sarah Luria;Doug Richardson

  • Not on our street : community attitudes to mental health care

    M. J. Dear;S. M. Taylor

  • Cultural Integration and Hybridization at the United States-Mexico Borderlands

    Michael Dear;Andrew Burridge

  • Attitudes toward the mentally ill and reactions to mental health facilities.

    S.M. Taylor;M.J. Dear;G.B. Hall

  • Planning for Mental Health Care: A Reconsideration of Public Facility Location Theory

    Michael Dear

  • The Power of Geography

    Liz Bondi;J. Wolch;M. Dear

  • Rethinking Los Angeles

    M J Dear;H E Schockman;G Hise

  • From Chicago to L.A. : making sense of urban theory

    M. J. Dear;J. Dallas Dishman

  • Postborder city : cultural spaces of Bajalta California

    M. J. Dear;Gustavo Leclerc;Jo-Anne Berelowitz

  • Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness

    Christopher J. Smith;Michael J. Dear;Jennifer R. Wolch

  • “Postmodern Urbanism” : from Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1998)

    Michael Dear;Steven Flusty

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Wolch
Jennifer Wolch University of California, Berkeley
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
David L. Streiner
David L. Streiner University of Toronto
Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson University of Sheffield
John Eyles
John Eyles University of the Witwatersrand
Brendan Gleeson
Brendan Gleeson University of Melbourne
Trevor J. Barnes
Trevor J. Barnes University of British Columbia
Paul Koegel
Paul Koegel RAND Corporation
Liz Bondi
Liz Bondi University of Edinburgh
Brian J. L. Berry
Brian J. L. Berry The University of Texas at Dallas

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