In the early 1950s, there was a growing sense that the existing paradigm for geographical research was not adequate in explaining how physical, economic, social, and political processes are spatially organized, ecologically related, or how outcomes generated by them are evidence for a given time and place.
U ranim 1950-ima rastao je osjećaj da postojeća paradigma za geografska istraživanja nije bila adekvatna u objašnjavanju kako su fizički, ekonomski, socijalni i politički procesi prostorno organizirani, ekološki povezani ili kako su rezultati generirani tim procesima dokaz danog vremena i prostora.