VIPs in Geography:

Glimpses of

Richard ("Dick") L. Morrill

Professor Emeritus, University of Washington

on the Internet

http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/VIP:/DickMorrill.html




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Migration


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Factor
Analysis


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(William)


Gentrification


Gerry-
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Ghetto


Glasgow


Goodness
of Fit


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Management


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Hanford


Health
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Hierarchy


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Models


King Cty


Landscapes


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Los Angeles


Lund


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Planning


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Growth


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Political
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Population


Portage Bay


Poverty


Public Affairs


Redistricting


Regional
Science


Residential
Segregation


RTA (Regional
Transit
Authority)


School
Desegregation


Seattle


Simulation


Smith Hall


Spatial
Organization


Statistics


Suburbs


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Sweden


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U.S. Census


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This page was created at the time of Richard Morrill's retirement from the faculty of the Geography Department at the University of Washington. It will remain "under construction" and become part of the resource system in Economic and Business Geography. Dick contributed immensely to innumerable causes, among them the education of thousands of students, including this former student who first encountered Professor Morrill in Geography 426 (Quantitative Methods) in the Fall of 1962, exactly 35 years ago. Thanks for it all, Dick! G.K.

Dick's Professional Life in the Geography Department at University of Washington:

The Morrill Home Page (with photos)

"Actually, I am now “emeritus”, as I officially retired in September 1997. But I have not been able to appreciate much change, as I am teaching in Fall 1997, under a “40 percent teaching continuation plan”, and have ongoing research projects...."

Morrill's Vita, Activities & (long!) Publication List

Dick Morrill on "Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Geography" [May 1999]

Dick Morrill on the Internet:

A cursary search revealed the following Seminars, Publications, Presentations and Quotations:

  • Dick Morrill on a provocative journey: "Not Quite 50 Years: Experiencing Change in Seattle's Landscape." [21 January 2003, 407 Smith Hall, University of Washington]

  • Poor areas overlooked during campaigns, according to UW study [Results translate into apparent discrepancies in representation], The UW Daily, Friday, April 23, 1999]
    Richard Morrill, a UW geography and environmental studies professor and chairman of the Ph.D. program in urban design, completed an examination of 1997 city election campaign contributions earlier this month that showed campaign contributions generally come from a few specific areas of Seattle.

  • Solutions come in threes: Relief for the congestion Seattle Times, Opinion/Editorials : Sunday, February 28, 1999 by Richard L. Morrill
    "Transportation woes top the regional agenda. We spend money, pass policies, but it doesn't get better. Is there any real hope? Although my just-completed course in transportation treated ocean shipping, air travel, rail freight and more, urban transportation in general and in Seattle in particular were frequent topics of discussion. Despite a wide spectrum of views, I think that the class agreed that the causes of congestion, in order of importance are as follows:..."

  • Puget Sound area could be made less attractive, Seattle Times, Tuesday, July 14, 1998, by Richard Morrill ["Richard Morrill, professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Washington, has studied population growth in the Puget Sound area for three decades, participating in policy debates on subjects ranging from growth management to mass transit to legislative redistricting. He's followed the Front Porch Forum discussion and offered some thoughts."]
    A look at the constitutional context and at experience elsewhere in controlling population growth may be useful for the readers following the Front Porch Forum's coverage of growth in central Puget Sound.
    Simplifying a little bit, this region grows about 20 percent per decade, about half (10 percent) through natural increase - more births than deaths in families already here - and about 10 percent through net migration - more people coming here than going elsewhere. The rate is not unusually fast, but the total amount is impressive because of our sheer size - over 3 million. Also, while about two-thirds of migrants come because of our vibrant job prospects, about one-third come just because the region is attractive and has a great reputation.

  • Geography 445: Population Distribution and Migration

  • Spatial Diffusion, Richard Morrill Washington University and Gary L Gaile Colorado University + Harvard University; Scientific Geography Series · Volume:10 Published 1988 · 88 pages Paper (0-8039-2684-7) Price £6.50 .... the authors describe the theory of spatial diffusion, its method of measurement and many of its applications.... The authors then summarize the developments that have been made to Hägerstrand's formulation, and make suggestions for future research.

  • Morrill on Film
    SINCE 1970 GOF HAS BEEN PRODUCED IN FIVE DIFFERENT MEDIUMS. ON-GOING EQUIPMENT UPGRADES EXPLAIN THE PROGRESSION IN THE QUALITY OF THIS ARCHIVAL RESOURCE. MORE RECENT PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN ENHANCED VIA IMPROVED CAMERA TECHNOLOGY. ALL MEDIUMS HAVE BEEN CONVERTED TO VHS. (10/22/97)

  • Geography Research Forum Dept. of Geography & Environmental Development Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer Sheva, Israel.
    Richard L. Morrill, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (Editorial Board) Geography Research Forum (GRF) is a refereed scholarly journal, appearing since 1979. It is published by the Ben Gurion University Press, and is the only Israeli geographical journal in the English language.

  • Microsoft® Encarta Weltatlas "bietet Ihnen zahlreiche Möglichkeiten, mit Hilfe dreidimensionaler Karten und einer unerschöpflichen Auswahl an kulturellen Informationen die Vielfalt unserer Erde zu erforschen. Das aktuelle Beratergremium von Encarta Weltatlas besteht aus zwölf hochqualifizierten Geographen: Phillip Bacon, ... Barbara Buttenfield, ... Richard Morrill, ... Die Mitarbeit dieser Experten macht Encarta Weltatlas zu dem geographischen Referenzwerk unserer Zeit."

  • International Journal of Population Geography [International Advisory Board: ... Richard Morrill, USA]

  • Geography at the University at Buffalo (Oct.24, 1997) || NCGIA Announcement of same Morrill Seminar Two speakers, hosted by Geography and Political Science: Richard Morrill, University of Washington "Republican revolution? analysis of congressional races in Washington state, 1992 - 1996" Ron Johnson, University of Bristol "New Labour victory: new Labour geography?"

  • November 22, 1996: "A Republican Revolution?" Dr. Richard Morrill, Dept. of Geography, University of Washington [1996-97 Colloquium Series Department of Geography University of Washington]

  • Monday, February 24, 11:30-12:15: "Geographic Variation in Change in Income Inequality Among U.S. States, 1970-1990," Richard L. MORRILL, Univ. Washington, USA WESTERN REGIONAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION PROGRAM 36th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Royal Waikoloan Resort ~ The Big Island of Hawaii, February 23-27, 1997

"Dick Morrill says..." (Seattle Times, Online, 1996- ):

  • If we're serious about our transportation mess . . . Seattle Times, November 16, 2000; By Guest columnist Richard Morrill Special to The Times
    We critics of the Sound Transit rail plan are challenged with: "We have to do something about traffic and trains are so cool! Why don't you liked them?" But hardly anyone likes the answer. Seattle's problem is simply too many competing users in too small a space: pedestrians, bicycles, cars, trucks and buses, moving, intersecting, turning, delivering, entering and exiting, cars and trucks parking, all on too-narrow, ill-designed roads of insufficient capacity. We can't alleviate the mess by building (commuter rail, light rail or new freeways) or planning (growth management).

  • Excerpts of view of slow-growth advocates; Seattle Times, Sunday, November 22, 1998 Before the citizens discussed the slow-growth policies, four advocates debated the pros and cons. Some excerpts:
    Richard Morrill, geography professor, University of Washington:
    "It's not just people - it's how people live their lives. And that's not just one policy, but a whole host of little things, a combination of policies which means we use less resources per capita, less land per capita, less fuel per capita in order to accommodate people with less pain and less cost."

  • Puget Sound area could be made less attractive ; Seattle Times, Tuesday, July 14, 1998 by Richard Morrill
    Richard Morrill, professor of geography and environmental studies at the University of Washington, has studied population growth in the Puget Sound area for three decades, participating in policy debates on subjects ranging from growth management to mass transit to legislative redistricting. He's followed the Front Porch Forum discussion and offered some thoughts.

  • Front-Porch `trial' has readers writing (November 7, 1997). ''Jurors'' in a mock trial of the Puget Sound Region identified a failure in 1997 to do what's needed to protect the region's quality of life in the face of growth. They offered remedies. We published their proposals last month, then we asked you for yours. "The overall series has been great but the trial was a disservice. I was asked to participate as a "defense attorney" but refused, because it was a Soviet-type show trial with a presumption of guilt and a preordained and planned conclusion, as an educational/propaganda device. I'd be pleased to participate in an honest conversation.
    Any urban scholar knows that all great cities have "traffic congestion, alienation and sprawl." The nature of the city is not a matter of guilt or innocence; so far as I know, it is not a "crime" to live in a house or drive a car. Rather, the city is a reflection of people's needs and values.
    The purpose of the trial was to make people feel guilty about their preferences and behavior. We should not."
    RICHARD MORRILL, Seattle

  • Community seeks to drop racist rule (September 5, 1997) Sand Point Country Club, a lushly treed private community with views of Lake Washington, functions differently from most neighborhoods. "Covenants are not unusual in Seattle, said Richard Morrill, who teaches a course in Geography and Inequality in America at the University of Washington. And historically, he said, neither are those that restricted race."

  • In-city life is not dying; downtown population is up 25% (August 14, 1997) Downtown Seattle is booming. More jobs. More stores. More theaters. And - surprise - more residents. Lots more. "The trend toward downtown living began to surface as long ago as 1985, said University of Washington geographer Richard Morrill. The 1980's boom in high-rise office construction created more downtown jobs which, in many cases, were filled by young, single people, Morrill said....."

  • Who we are and what we are becoming (August 3, 1997) Statistics paint a demographic portrait of a changing Seattle "'We have witnessed a transformation from a provincial working man's town to an upscale, Pacific Rim cosmopolitan city,' said Richard Morrill, a professor of geography at the University of Washington."

  • Eastside population: up and up (July 2, 1997) Eastside cities and towns continued to swell in the past year, boasting an overall growth rate that outstripped the rest of King County and narrowed the gap with Seattle. "'I'd expect a lot of those places to at least double in the next 10 years,' said Richard Morrill, a geography professor at the University of Washington and an expert in population trends. 'Some could even triple in size. So if Carnation grows to 5,000, it should not surprise anyone.'"

  • Why did crime drop? Pick a theory (June 5, 1997) With major crime down sharply locally and nationally, criminologists and law-enforcement officials are trying to figure out what's driving the five-year decline. " -- It's the economy: Professor Richard Morrill of the University of Washington says a small part of the decline is explained by a healthy economy."

  • Holly Park to rise again (May 6, 1997) The old Holly Park isolated the poor. The new Holly Park is supposed to make them part of the family. Can it work? "Even so, UW's Morrill cautions that it will not be easy to make this experiment work. "Any social engineering that forces people together against the market is very unstable. 'People sort themselves by class. It's extremely difficult to maintain a mix and it's not just money. It's education, interests and occupation. Either the rich will go or the poor will go, but it won't stay mixed.'"

  • State has 666,270 newcomers since '90 (March 20, 1997), There are a lot more people in Washington than there used to be. And a lot more are coming. "And Richard Morrill, professor of geography and environmental sciences at the University of Washington, notes that the Puget Sound region has had economic booms in the latter half of the 1960s, '70s, '80s and now the '90s.
    Morrill says it is fairly unusual, however, for all counties in a state to be growing at the same time, as they are in Washington (although Whitman County barely budged the needle at 1.8 percent over the past six years). And barring an unexpected economic downturn, the trend seems likely to continue for the next few years.
    'We may think it's crowded here in King County, but the state as a whole is not,' Morrill says."

  • Front Porch Forum: Has the glow worn off suburbia? Many think so (June 10, 1996); By a number of measures, suburbanites are less content than their counterparts in big cities, small towns and rural parts of the state, according to a recent survey conducted as part of the Front Porch Forum. "University of Washington geography Professor Richard Morrill says suburbanites' feeling of political powerlessness is surprising because it goes against the widely accepted idea that people feel more powerful in smaller communities. He suggested that suburban residents, the most prosperous of the groups surveyed, may see their communities as losing ground because corporate downsizing has made them uncertain about the future."

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