Time-geography: a new beginning

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-transcending and still evolving perspective on the everyday workings of society and the biographies of individuals. It is a highly flexible and growing language, a way of thinking about the world at large as well as the events and experiences, or content, of one’s own life. We want