Abstract:
Geovisualisation is the combination of science and art using geographics to provide visual communication for the discipline of geography. Since the Quantitative Revolution in the 1960s up until the present, there have been rapid changes in how geographic theory is questioned, discussed and produced. Consequently it has also changed the way in which geovisualisation coordinate with the geographic theory and how these visuals are produced to provide better analytical outcomes for geography. This thesis examines the discipline spatial structure changes since the quantitative paradigm to the present by critically reviewing the sub‐fields of geographic space, economic geography and critical GIS. This review aims to create a wider understanding of how they co‐interact with each other and also to reveal new paths for geographic theory and geovisualisation developments. The findings of this study proclaim visualisations change geographic theory and vice versa. It is also clear that many current paradigm geographers are practising qualitative‐quantitative combined hybrid geographies. This trend is forecasted in the next few coming years and is certainly a powerful way of developing the main topics being analysed in this thesis in understanding upcoming emerging geographies.