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Quite obviously, any person writing of his or her recollections of the 1950s and 1960s from the vantage point of the 1980s cannot produce the same document that would have resulted if he or she had kept a contemporary diary or record. Almost inevitably, when looking back from here and now to there and then our selection of foci and our interpretation of events are coloured by our ‘life content’ during the interval (or by the external actions and internal experiences we have accumulated in weaving a path through time-space on both a daily and lifelong scale), and by the inseparable context within which that ‘life content’ has unfolded.
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For further elaboration upon the ‘project’ concept and innovation use, see Torsten Hägerstrand, ‘On socio-technical ecology and the study of innovations’, Ethnologica Europaea, vol. 7 (1974) pp. 17–34;
Allan Pred, ‘The impact of technological and institutional innovations on life content: some time-geographic observations’, Geographical Analysis vol. 10 (1978) pp. 345–72;
Allan Pred, ‘Of paths and projects: individual behaviour and its societal context’, in R. Golledge and K. Cox (eds), Behavioural Geography Revisited (London: Methuen, 1980).
For further development of this line of reasoning, see Torsten Hägerstrand, ‘On the survival of the cultural heritage’, Ethnologica Scandinavica (1977) pp. 7–12.
Definitions of basic time-geographic ‘realities’ and constraints are available in several articles, including Torsten Hägerstrand, ‘Space, time and human condition’, in A. Karlqvist, L. Lundqvist and F. Snickars (eds), Dynamic Allocation of Urban Space (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1975) pp. 3–14; Allan Pred, ‘The impact of technological and institutional innovations’; and Allan Pred, ‘The choreography of existence: comments on Hägerstrand’s time-geography and its usefulness’, Economic Geography vol. 53 (1977) pp. 207–21.
R. Glacken, Traces on the Rhodian Shore (University of California Press, 1967).
Torsten Hâgerstrand, Innovationsfôrloppet ur korologisk synpunkt (Lund: Meddelanden frÅn Lunds Universitets Geografiska Institution, Avhandlingar no. 25, 1953); later translated by myself under the title, Innovation Diffusion as a Spatial Process (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967).
See S. Gale and G. Olsson (eds), Philosophy in Geography (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1979) pp. xi—xvi.
G. Tôrngvist, Studier i industilokalisering (Stockholm: Meddelanden frân Geografiska Institutionen vid Stockholms Universitet, 1963).
Allan Pred, ‘Behavior and location’, Lund Series in Geography B (1967–9).
O. Wârneryd, Interdependence in Urban Systems (Goteborg: Regionkonsult Aktiebolag, 1968).
W. William-Olsson, Huvuddragen av Stockholms geografiska utveckling, 1850–1930 (Stockholm: Meddelanden frÅn Geografiska Institutionen vid Stockholms Universitet, 1937);
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Pred, A. (1983). From Here and Now to There and Then: Some Notes on Diffusions, Defusions and Disillusions. In: Billinge, M., Gregory, D., Martin, R. (eds) Recollections of a Revolution. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17416-4_6
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