Bureaucracy and Community Book

This was the simplest way to understand modern geography, I wish this was the first thing I read, it would have saved me a lot of time and headaches. Cresswell goes through some of the history of thought in geography, particularly the humanist branch, and brings it in smoothly all the way to modern thinkers like Doreen Massey, Nigel Coates, David Harvey, and a lot of Yi-Fu Tuan interspersed. In the end, you're left with a vocabulary to think with, and a belief that just thinking about these theories in daily life will yield your own perspective; this is a field that's been developing since before the icons, but is never really complete. Highly recommend.